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Higbee's soundman lost the torpedo whine, but his probing sonar picked up a new contact: the metallic hull of a submerged vessel. Depth charges at the ready, the destroyer bore down on the contact. The captain ordered an uncoded message sent to CINCPAC at Pearl Harbor: "Attacked by submarine. Position: latitude 24° 36 min. north, longitude 121° 25 min. east. Am attacking submarine...
After Photographer William B. Bates's identification, the U.S. Navy wasted no time. Located aboard the carrier Philippine Sea in Korean waters, Ship's Photographer Bates, Ph.M. i/c, was flown to Pearl Harbor, where Admiral Radford, CINCPAC, awarded him the U.S. Navy Photographic Institute's citation "for exceptionally meritorious photography...
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...
...said that Radford wears "three hats," which means that he has three commands. As CINCPAC, he commands the Pacific Fleet. As CINCPOA (Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Area), he is theater commander of an area which reaches from the North to the South Pole, from the continental shores of the Americas to the Bay of Bengal. Radford is also High Commissioner for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which means that he must look after the welfare of inhabitants of islands put in U.S. trust by the United Nations. This is the least important of the admiral...
...Navy, its air arms and to the Marine Corps. He was sent out of Washington to command a peacetime task fleet, brought back again as Vice Chief of Naval Operations (as a vice admiral), sent out again in the spring of 1949, as a full admiral, to be CINCPAC...