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Career airmen of the Navy, not so fortunate, are still represented in the upper strata (four-and five-star admirals) only by five-star COMINCH Ernest King, who learned to fly at 48 and has never worked hard at being an airman, and four-starred "Bull" Halsey, who was 52 before he ever had a control stick in his hands. This week, naval aviators who had been busy at flying since they were youngsters watched anxiously for the Navy's list of promotions to four-star rank. But they watched without much hope. To the Navy's crusty...
Lieut. John S. D. Eisenhower and Ensign Ernest J. King Jr., graduated from West Point and Annapolis, went straight into service as their fathers had before them: Invader Ike Eisenhower, West Point '15, and COMINCH Ernie King, Annapolis...
What Price Success? COMINCH Ernest J. King is on record as saying that the Japs are improving their antisubmarine devices, but this fact does not mean that the Japs have licked U.S. subs as the Allies have licked German U-boats. Other factors tending to increase sub losses: 1) a big increase in the number of U.S. submarines (many of them new) now operating in the Pacific; 2) shorter Jap sealanes, as the Japs are driven back, which means the Japs can provide better antisub protection; 3) apparently more & more dangerous missions undertaken by U.S. subs...
...Journal's real biffy was the discovery that the rank laid out for COMINCH Ernie King and Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's Chief of Staff, is six-star "Admiral of the Navy" (equals nothing short of Heaven). Reportedly Ernie King is already designing a new sleeve insigne and pondering a way to avoid the Milky Way effect on his starstudded shoulder boards by substituting a wreath, or something...
...Navy's new level, two candidates were also put up: Admirals William D. Leahy, the President's personal Chief of Staff, and COMINCH Ernest J. King. Their titles in prospect: Admiral of the Navy. In the rank-conscious Navy, only George Dewey (died 1917) has ever gone so high before...