Word: coman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy last week raised four captains commanding forces whose size warrants a flag officer but no admiral: Oscar Smith of Special Task Force No. 1; Lee Payne Johnson of the Atlantic Fleet's rear echelon; South Pacific Amphibious Force's transport commander, Lawrence F. Reifsnider; Robert Grimes Coman of the Southwest Pacific's Service Force. Like their Army counterparts, brigadier generals, commodores will wear one star. Like all task-force men, their chances of seeing action are never...