Word: arleigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard-hitting Arleigh Burke was always a handy man to have around in a fight. In the South Pacific campaign he won the nickname "31-Knot Burke" from the speed with which he pushed his destroyer squadron into action. He became chief of staff in Marc Mitscher's mighty Task Force 58, won a chestful of medals, was promoted to the temporary rank of commodore. When the Navy's own war against the Air Force and the Defense Department broke out, Burke was assigned to head "Op-23," a compact and more or less secret Navy Department task...
Last week Arleigh Burke, 48, found himself at the center of a fight for which he was poorly equipped. His name had appeared on a list of 22 captains recommended by a Navy selection board for promotion to rear admiral. Then, mysteriously, the board was reconvened and ordered to do its work over again. When it had finished that time, Burke's name was not on the list. It had been replaced by the name of Captain Richard P. Glass, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews' 51-year-old aide, who would be retired from service if he were passed...
...Philadelphia, with 46 missions over Europe, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with Six Oak Leaf Clusters to his credit; Lehon I. Twarog of New Bedford, Mass, with greatest time in service of the group, including two and a half years in the South Pacific; and Arleigh A. Tison '49 of Shreveport, La., recipient of a Purple Heart for wounds in action...
...Captain Arleigh Albert Burke, U.S.N., had a new job: Chief of Staff of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's superpowerful Task Force 58, and there was not a Navy man in the Pacific to say he did not deserve the job. At 42, the king of the "cans" had become a legend...
Thanksgiving Day, between midnight and dawn, a scouting U.S. destroyer force intercepted six Jap light cruisers or de stroyers in the waters northwest of Bougainville. Two of the surprised enemy were quickly dispatched by torpedoes. The remainder turned stern in a welter of American shellfire. Hard-driving Captain Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke...