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More important than the admirals' birth dates was their break from battleship thinking. Of ten top-rankers who will be closest to Submariner Nimitz, four are high-octane airmen (King had only one); three are submariners; two are surfacemen but amphibious specialists. Only holdover, Admiral Farber is a battleship man. Among Ernie King's top nine advisers were six "turtlebacks...
With battered superstructures, the battleship Washington, carrying 1,606 troops, and the carrier Enterprise (5,057 troops) limped into New York on Christmas Eve-as the Navy had promised. Said the Washington's Captain Francis X. McInerney: "The worst storms I have ever experienced in 26 years at sea . . . far worse than the typhoons in the Pacific last year...
...trick is a mild, little, wild-haired British professor, I. A. (for Ivor Armstrong) Richards, the Western Hemisphere's No. 1 apostle of Basic English. Says he: "It takes only 400 words of Basic to run a battleship. With 850 words you can run the planet...
...When Congress prodded the Navy into an experimental aviation program, Jack Towers was one of the first three pilots trained. He survived accidents in the air, his two colleagues (thus becoming Naval Aviator No. 1), and his disappointment over the kicking around the air service got from the battleship admirals...
Naval aviators have been struggling for years to break the battleship admirals' stranglehold on topside jobs. This week, in a command shake-up being rigged for public announcement, they saw their hopes fulfilled...