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...task force of cruisers and destroyers under Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan drove in on the Jap bombardment group. The U.S. flagship was the heavy cruiser San Francisco, the afterpart of whose superstructure had been messed up a bit by the crash of a Jap torpedo pilot the day before. Behind her steamed a column of heavy and light cruisers. Destroyers flanked the line of battle...
Rear Admiral Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Callaghan was killed in this action, the third U.S. admiral to lose his life in battle (the others: Rear Admirals Isaac Kidd and John Wilcox...
...Washington to U. S. 50 (the Defense Highway), twisted over the wet, slippery road, through piny woods and swamps on the way to Annapolis. With the President were Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark, White House Secretary "Pa" Watson, Naval Aide Daniel Callaghan, eight Secret Service men. As there was no precedent for Lord Halifax's stepping down from the Foreign Office to become Ambassador to the U. S., so there was no precedent for President Roosevelt's answering gesture of friendship in thus going out to greet an Ambassador, showing...
...peoples, habits, population, geography, economic life. When a ship sank off Scotland several months ago, experts argued: Had the ship hit a rock or had it been torpedoed? The President pondered latitude & longitude, said: "It hit a rock. They ought to have seen that rock." Naval Aide Daniel J. Callaghan recalled the rock, disagreed: "At high tide, Mr. President, that rock is submerged." No such thing, said the President, even at high tide that rock is 20 feet out of the water...
...Mexico. As shipmates the President took no politicians, no bigwigs, no intimate advisers, but three men who were once described at the White House as "the only three fellows around here who don't give a damn about politics" -hearty Brig. General Edwin Watson, Captain Daniel J. Callaghan, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire-his military and naval aides, his doctor...