Word: caperton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Banks Caperton, 86, oldest retired Admiral of the U.S. Navy, Commander of the Pacific Fleet in World War I, when he cleared German raiders from the South Atlantic and operated the naval patrol off South America. A diplomat as well as a fighter, he cruised on courtesy visits to the Latin American republics in 1919, won the praise of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt for being of "inestimable value" in strengthening U.S.-Latin American ties...