Word: cincuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court of the United States, headed the commission and gave its report a judicial tone. The rest of the commission was well equipped to supply professional understanding: Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, Major General Frank R. McCoy (retired); retired Admirals Joseph M. Reeves, himself a onetime CINCUS, and William H. Standley, onetime Chief of Naval Operations...
...were all top-drawer officers: Major General Frank Ross McCoy, bemedaled World War I troop commander and diplomat; Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, World War I airman, General Staffer on War Plans; Admiral William Harrison Standley, dynamic onetime Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, ex-CINCUS. (All but McNarney are retired officers...
...Inquiry Board met (before flying to Hawaii), the President acted again, removed the three commanders of Naval, Army and Air Forces in Hawaii. Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, 59, was relieved of his title as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (CINCUS) and his duties as Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Lieut. General Walter Campbell Short, 61, was relieved as Commander of the Hawaiian Department. Major General Frederick LeRoy Martin, 59, was relieved as Hawaiian Air Force Commander. In their places: > As Commander of the Pacific Fleet, a calm, frosty-faced, steel-blue-eyed Texan, one of the Navy...
...week's end the President appointed one of the toughest "sundowners"* of them all as CINCUS. To be field boss of all the U.S. Navy in all seas he named Admiral Ernest Joseph King, 63, egg-bald, nitroglycerine-tempered, two-fisted, acid-tongued Commander of the Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANT), onetime Aeronautics Bureau Chief. To replace King as CINCLANT he raised small Rear Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll, 53, at present Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, an exacting, reserved veteran. The promoted admirals were "taut ship" commanders (meaning rigid disciplinarians, as opposed to "happy ship" officers). Air-power exponents were speechless...
...order of succession to the Fleet command, Admiral King's topmost subordinates are: Rear Admiral David McDougal Le Breton, 56, a greying, bandy-legged bantam who holds six decorations. He is generally rated one of the Navy's ablest tacticians, by his partisans is considered a coming CINCUS (Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet). His disparagers say that he is adept at polishing topside apples. He commands the Atlantic Fleet's single division of three old battleships (Arkansas, Texas, New York),* whose 12-and 14-in. guns were so short of range that Congress last year authorized their...