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...carrier Saratoga, later the Fleet's aircraft battle force. Rear Admiral Arthur Byron Cook, onetime BuAer chief, now in charge of aircraft operating with the Atlantic Fleet, who learned to fly at 54 Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., the Navy's senior admiral at sea, COMCARPAC (Commander of Carriers in the Pacific) until Admiral Towers' new appointment, who got his flight training at 53. Nonetheless Halsey is rated the most experienced of U.S. aviator commanders, has a real knowledge of the functions of aircraft] which he displayed in raids on Wake, the Gilbert and Marshall Islands...
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