Word: ensigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many stories written about the famous flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi it has never been said where the flag came from. I have that story in two letters from my son, Ensign Alan S. Wood, U.S.N.R., communications officer on an LST, and I thought you might be interested...
...stole the show of the evening with a new diamond. Congratulations, Ensign, and we trust that Margie is duly proud of having ruined your hard-hearted and "practical" theories about women all in one term. At the dance we were also pleased to have a pleasant look at the near future Mrs. Fish...
Intermediate flight training at Pensacola, Florida, or Corpus Christi, Texas completes the pilot's education and culminates in a commission as ensign in the Naval Reserve. About ten weeks of operational training with a unit must follow, however, before the pilot officers are assigned to active combat overseas...
Fifty-two years in the Navy shaped the thinking of Bill Leahy, born on a farm near Hampton, Iowa. As a midshipman at Annapolis he sailed aboard the leaky, century-old frigate Constellation. As an ensign, he was a member of the crew that took the Oregon racing around the Horn and bellowing into Santiago Harbor...
...Darling, I am so glad you are alive; will see you soon. I love you with all my heart." But naturally she loved her second husband too. Since she had married him innocently, the law posed no problem-she was left to make her own choice. Last week, while Ensign MacDowell was at sea, she decided...