Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experiences related to the sinking of the United States aircraft carrier Wasp will be the theme of a confidential talk to the Caisson Club of the R.O.T.C. by Naval Lieutenant Joseph J. Bodell '41 tonight at 8 o'clock. The meeting place has not yet been decided...
...describing the Wasp disaster Lieutenant Bodell will describe many practical aspects of the military operations in the South Pacific which would be of interest to the military science students of the Caisson Club...
...Navy began the war with seven carriers. Four were sunk in the first year: Lexington, York town, Wasp, Hornet. That left three. The Japs, though they had lost between six and eight, still had perhaps five...
...lost a carrier to submarine attack: in Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley's command in the South Pacific the Wasp was nailed by a Japanese submarine off the Solomons. To submarines or gunfire the Royal Navy has lost no less than four (Courageous, Glorious, Ark Royal, Eagle). Naming none of these names, Flyer Collett wrote...
...hours to discuss personal or family problems-or perhaps just to chat. Chaplain Williams had, to follow up many of these visits by correspondence with families or relief agencies. He kept one yeoman typing all the time. The Chaplain's activities ranged from running the Wasp's athletics, film shows, library and newspaper, to defending men in court-martial...