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Naval Museum: There is a naval museum, but the town's large naval arsenal was severely damaged during World War II. The Church of St.-Louis has an 18th century bell tower. The old fortifications, designed by the marquis de Vauban in the 17th century, have almost all been replaced by shaded esplanades. Pierre Loti was born in Rochefort in 1850. Pop. (1962) 26,490.
After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1916, he saw duty with the Atlantic Fleet in World War I. He attended flight-training school at Pensacola, Fla., was designated a naval aviator in 1920, and served at the Pensacola Naval Air Station until October 1921. Much of his service between the two world wars was in naval aviation.
When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, Radford held the rank of captain. He was promoted to rear admiral in 1942, and achieved fame in World War II as commander of a carrier task force in the Pacific. After the war he served as deputy chief of naval air operations (1946), with the rank of vice admiral.
REED, SIR Edward James, English naval architect: b. Sheerness, 20 Sept. 1830; d. 30 Nov. 1906. He was educated at the School of Mathematics and Naval Construction in Portsmouth, was at one time connected with Sheer-ness dockyard, and having become an authority on naval architecture was appointed chief constructor to the navy, for which he designed a number of ironclads and other vessels. |
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