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...Admiral Boddam-Whetham retired in August 1939, he looked forward to a quiet old age in his Hampshire village, where, in baggy tweeds, basket on arm, he did his own marketing. Behind him were almost 40 years in the navy as commander of various destroyers and of the battleship Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks after retirement he was back in uniform, assigned chiefly to duty on the perilous Arctic convoy route, where his sailor's fear of fog and ice found ample justification...
...last week made a vice admiral it was a promotion for Admiral Towers but a demotion for the Navy's air arm. For Towers was sent out to command all Navy flyers in the Pacific and his key job in the Washington high command was given to a battleship admiral...
...BuAer Chief Rear Admiral John Sidney McCain, 58, is a good officer. But like many other so-called air admirals, he got an airman's rating late, is not an airman by profession, but a battleship admiral with pay-and-a-half and a flying suit.* Since his air training at Pensacola m 1936, at the age of 52, Battleshipman McCain has had little to do with air developments...
...dozen flyers qualified by age and experience for some of the Navy's top jobs, Towers has been the only one to make the grade. That Towers got as far as he did was perhaps due to the fact that, unlike others, he did not squabble with the battleship admirals. His persuasive methods helped get the flyers more planes and carriers but did not win the final battle...
...Commander of the Pacific Fleet Air Forces, which put him on the staff of Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet-an apparently anomalous position since the carriers over which he is supposed to exercise authority operate under orders of task force commanders, usually battleship admirals...