Word: wilkinson
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...First woman boxer on record: Elizabeth Wilkinson. She fought-presumably men-in the pubs of Clerkenwell, England, circa...
During his training at the Annapolis "Schools of Application" (where civilians were turned into officers), Marine Smith met Ada Wilkinson of Phoenixville, Pa. at a dance. In 1909, when he returned from the Philippines, he married her, despite the anti-Yankee doubts of the Alabama Smiths...
Where Is Koga? On both Choiseul and Bougainville, Allied landings were made on relatively undefended beaches, near but not too near Japanese strongholds. Allied amphibious forces under the command of Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson did their job unmolested except by a few hit-&-run air attacks. Enemy airfields in the area had been literally knocked out by a sustained air campaign. By week's end, the Japanese Fleet had not reacted to the advance in any way. General Douglas MacArthur, a relative newcomer to the delights of naval warfare, said: "If the Jap Fleet comes out I will...
...Tacks and nails were all made by hand: Thomas Jefferson kept a dozen nail makers busy at Monticello all the time, and it took as many man-hours to forge the nails for a house as it did to build it. Jeremiah Wilkinson's 1776 "invention"-putting a dozen headless tacks in a vise and hammering them all with one blow-was the talk of Rhode Island, and it was not until 1850 that a machine was invented to make "horse nails" tough enough to supplant the blacksmith...
Furthermore, the No. 1 amphibious U.S. commander in the South Pacific was somewhere last week on an undisclosed assignment. When Rear Admiral Theodore Wilkinson took over amphibious operations in the Solomons, he relieved Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner. "Terrible" Turner, who carried out the landings on Guadalcanal, the Russells and New Georgia, would be expected to pop up again suddenly and violently, probably somewhere along the flank of the Jap's easternmost defenses...