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Turn of the Wheel. He was not master of his house in BuAer. He got no credit for cutting administrative corners to procure new planes which paid off after Pearl Harbor: the Dauntless, the Avenger, the Hellcat. He became Commander, Air, Pacific (in 1942) and it looked like the fulfillment of his dreams, until it turned into desk duty. When a commander was picked for the great central Pacific offensive in 1943, not Jack Towers but Battleshipman Raymond Ames Spruance...
...Sometimes he has taken their advice. But airmen point out that McCain was 51 and 30 years a Navy man before he won his wings, and that he has held air commands only since 1936. Not even the appointment as new Chief of BuAer of Rear Admiral DeWitt C. ("Duke") Ramsey, an oldtime pilot now commanding a task force in the South Pacific, eased the disappointment of the Navy's air zealots...
...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...
...Pensacola admiral is Admiral Towers. He has been flying since Glenn Curtiss taught him how in 1911. It was he who commanded the famous NCs when the NC4 became the first (1919) plane to cross the Atlantic. When appointed chief of BuAer he had been 28 years an airman...
...once commanded the Lexington, but his real love is submarines. Vice Admiral Frederick Joseph Home, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, who became a naval air observer at 46. He once commanded the carrier Saratoga, later the Fleet's aircraft battle force. Rear Admiral Arthur Byron Cook, onetime BuAer chief, now in charge of aircraft operating with the Atlantic Fleet, who learned to fly at 54 Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., the Navy's senior admiral at sea, COMCARPAC (Commander of Carriers in the Pacific) until Admiral Towers' new appointment, who got his flight training...