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...explained the most complex, complicated and spread-out organization in the world, CINCPAC, in clear prose and enlightening maps. The details are all there, but the picture...
Free World Heir. As CINCPAC, Admiral Felt heads the largest military command in the world, capably fills a job that demands a readiness for the violent arts of war and the gentle arts of diplomacy...
...colored building squatting above the U.S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, the Laotian skirmishes became new red dots on a vast, well-dotted map of the Pacific frontier. In a windowless basement room that once served as a hospital morgue, Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), met with his staff for their briefing. Officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines mulled over the latest intelligence reports. Then the little man with the four stars and the weight of half a world on his shoulders issued orders that soon spanned the Pacific...
...soon as he got his wings, Don Felt seemed to get more than his share of combat and command posts-experience that built the basis of his skill as CINCPAC...
...named Commander in Chief, Pacific, with 500,000 men, 400 ships, 2,500 planes, to do the job of deploying U.S. power and backstopping U.S. diplomacy from Alaska to the Indian Ocean. And Flyer Don Felt's legacy, left him by retiring four-star Admiral five-year CINCPAC Felix Budwell Stump, 63, veteran of Leyte Gulf (1944), Indo-China (1954), Quemoy-Matsu (1954-55), and Indonesia (1958), was again the legacy of a big moment. "If the U.S. fails to take a strong position," said Admiral Stump, "all Asia will surely regard us as a subbreed of paper tiger...