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Early Career: Graduated from Annapolis 18th (of 176), in the same class (1916) but ahead of two leading candidates for the job of CNO, Admirals Radford and Carney. Served on battleship Pennsylvania in World War I. Began a routine series of tours, too heavily larded with staff assignments (said his friends) for a successful career. In 1942, became director of officer personnel in the Navy's Bureau of Personnel...
Admiral Robert B. ("Mick") Carney, NATO Commander for Southern Europe, was considered. Vice CNO Admiral Lynde
...Navy, late in 1949, as the youngest Chief of Naval Operations in history, he found an embittered, bickering service, smoldering with animosity against its fellow services, the Administration, against Admiral Sherman himself. By his able advocacy of Navy views, by his quietly effective defense of Navy abilities, the new CNO quickly restored order and confidence. The newest member of the J.C.S. (replacing Admiral Denfeld, who was sacked in the unification row), he quickly proved himself its ablest member, a well-trained professional fighting man who also had a grip of world politics unmatched by any of his associates...
Fighter. It was Sherman, commander of the Mediterranean fleet for two years before he became CNO, who first convinced the other members of the J.C.S. (who had never thought much about it), then convinced Dean Acheson's State Department, that Spain is an essential element of Europe's defense system. For Forrest Sherman, last week's negotiation was a personal triumph...
...General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 50, to serve as his plans officer. He also got the loan of the Navy's Captain George Anderson, 44. Anderson, whom Sherman had picked as his operations officer when he commanded the Sixth Fleet, is, according to Pentagon scuttlebutt, "sure to be CNO some...