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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...W. ARMSTRONG Wilmington...
...W. T. DAVIS Lincoln...
Ominous, black and still was the sea. It was 0200, Aug. 22, 1958. Position: 35° N. 73° W-about 200 miles off the North Carolina coast. A periscope sliced through the surface, and the playing reflections of stars rippled in retreat like scattering minnows. Fifty-eight feet below, in the control room of the submarine, men stood their watches in the eerie green glow of instrument lights. The prison silence was broken only by the whir of a generator, the purr of a hydraulic pump, the leaky-faucet sound of water trickling down the packing gland...
...first plane ride, in a yellow twin-engined H16 seaplane, sent him soaring into a pilot's career. In 1930 he became a member of the U.S. Navy's famous Fighting Squadron 1, the High Hat Squadron (skipper of the High Hats: Lieut. Commander Arthur W. Radford). Nine of the High Hats, including Thach and Radford, barnstormed the nation in Curtiss F8C4 Hell-divers, tied wingtip to wingtip with Manila rope. Bound thus, Thach and some of his comrades astonished crowds with loops, snap rolls and high wing overs-and never snapped a rope or a wing. When...
...vote, the state chief justices adopted an unprecedented resolution. They approved a report on which a ten-man committee, headed by Maryland's Chief Judge Frederick W. Brune, had worked for a year. Said Brune...