Word: cincuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pacific commander, and the last CINCUS, was Admiral Husband E. Kimmel-who was to hear the roar of Japanese bombs exploding amid the anchored fleet...
...worked in the Bureau of Navigation (personnel), was aide to two Assistant Secretaries of the Navy (Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and T. Douglas Robinson), was assistant chief of staff to a Commander of the Battle Force and to a CINCUS (Admiral F. H. Schofield...
...prepping for Annapolis). When his time came for flag rank he was made skipper of the old Nevada. From then on he wore the broad stripe of Admiral's rank as he settled down in the Navy's top drawer-Naval War College, operations officer to the CINCUS (Admiral A. J. Hepburn), Director of War Plans, observer in London (with the temporary rank of vice admiral...
Since Dec. 20 bald, lean "Rey" King had been Commander in Chief, United States Fleet. He had been brought to Washington from command of the Atlantic fleet, given more authority than any CINCUS ever had before. Submarine man, naval aviator and onetime Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, Admiral King is air-minded. Thus, twice in two weeks, the President, in military shakeups, had emphasized air warfare...
...Admiral Russell Willson, to take more work off his hands. Navymen knew that "Rey" King did not give a Bosun's curse for old Navy tradition. If any ranker in the Navy could make them pop, things would now pop. And COMINCH King (who changed the abbreviation from CINCUS) finally had the popper all to himself...