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Tireless Crusader. The CINCPAC who shrewdly broods over these matters is Arthur William Radford, 54, who has been a red-hot airman, a resourceful administrator, a crack staff man and a fighting carrier admiral. Above all, he has been a tireless crusader for Navy air-first against "battleship admirals" and later, in the great postwar unification controversy, against those who, Radford was convinced, were trying to nibble Navy aviation out of existence...
...flew for a while at Pensacola as an instructor, then got a two-year tour of duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics at Washington. There he first demonstrated his ability for administration and staff work, and began his long war against the battleship admirals (as late as World War II he was still cursing them in his quiet, emphatic voice). As a scout plane pilot attached to the Colorado and later the Pennsylvania, he learned what the old-time battlewagon skippers were generally like. Most of them hated the airplanes they were forced to carry, because 1) they splashed...
...Decks. Radford's first duty after graduation was on the battleship South Carolina, which had only one Atlantic convoy job and was otherwise used for training. When the Navy sent out its first postwar call for academy graduates to take flight training at Pensacola, Radford jumped at the chance, and might have gotten into the first Pensacola class if his ship had not been in Honduras. He made the second class, and got his "bird" (pilot's wings) as Naval Aviator No.2896...
...Vadis. A German army barracks during the war, Cinedtta had been stripped of all electrical equipment, and its sound stages had been smashed and gutted. A hurry call for Metro's own big generator went out to Hollywood and the Italian government lent two more from the torpedoed battleship Vittorio Veneto...
...looks very much as if everyone is simply fascinated by the idea of 'the bigger the better.' There are some examples in the history of the world that should lead us to question this view. We should not forget the dinosaur . . . Indeed, we should not forget the battleship, now almost extinct...