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...member of the original Faculty sub-committee which prepared the draft of that proposal, I naturally hoped that the Army would adopt it in toto. For the reasons which I have discussed above, however, I am extremely pleased with the substantial progress which we have made. . . . T. N. Dupuy, Colonel Artillery
...Marine Division's 70-mile march south from Changjin reservoir to the sea in the winter of 1950 has gone down in military annals as one of the great classic retreats in the history of war. Bringing their dead and wounded with them in sub-zero weather, pursued by eight fiercely attacking divisions of Chinese Communists, the marines of the 1st beat their way to Hungnam and rescue in 13 days. But proper marines never refer to the march as a retreat; in the parlance of the corps, it is always "an amphibious operation in reverse," or, simply...
...Navy's second atomic submarine at Groton, Conn., 20,000 guests crowded into the Electric Boat shipyard and a Congressman's lady, Mrs. W. Sterling Cole of Bath, N.Y. cried, "I christen thee Seawolf.* Before she could swing the traditional champagne bottle, the sleek, 3,000-ton sub began sliding down the ways. To superstitious seamen, a botched christening means bad luck, but Elizabeth Cole made a last-second pitch, the twelve-ounce bottle of California champagne shattered, and bubbles splashed satisfactorily over the Seawolf's beflagged...
Within six months the reactor and more than 1,000,000 other necessary items will be installed aboard the Seawolf. Then the green-and-black sub will be taken on sea trials by her 100-man crew, skippered by young (37), Virginia-born Commander Richard B. Laning, a veteran of both carrier and submarine warfare in the Pacific. Like the Nautilus, the Seawolf should be able to speed at more than 25 knots under water, and to cruise thou sands of miles without refueling...
...many others . . . Nuclear propulsion for larger naval ships, e.g., carriers, is well advanced." Next, he predicted atomic aircraft, and particularly "nuclear-powered seaplanes." Without ceremony or speeches, early in the morning of the Seawolf's launching, the same shipyard began the assembly of a third, smaller, improved atomic sub marine...