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...higher than an "angel's footstool," is frigid, closemouthed COMINCH Ernest J. King, who was eligible for retirement last year but was retained in his post by the President. Last week he celebrated his 65th birthday. The only other men in the Navy who wear an admiral's four stars on active line duty: > White-haired, canny Chester W. Nimitz, 58, boss in the Pacific; shaggy, bull-tongued William Frederick Halsey Jr., 61, commander of the South Pacific and the only one of the full admirals besides King himself who is a naval aviator; ruddy, meticulous Harold...
...supposed strength of the Allied forces in North Africa.* Nothing in the nature of the islands, or in the record of this war to date, indicates that the operation will be easy. It was against just such optimism that Admiral Ernest Joseph King, the U.S. Fleet's realistic COMINCH, cautioned months ago when he said of Mediterranean possibilities: "I can't see them as anything but seaborne invasions, and they are not going to be easy...
...fateful days of early June 1942, the men of Patwing Four and their Army opposite numbers were on the short side of one of the most successful double gambles in military history. The Jap was casting a two-pronged offensive at Alaska and at Midway. Admiral Ernest Joseph King (COMINCH) chose to throw his biggest defensive punch toward Midway, and his carrier-based airmen spearheaded the victory in one of the decisive battles of history. In the Aleutians, the "PBY Interceptor Command" and a handful of flyers had to fight with what was on hand...
Dramatis Personae. This was a conference such as history had never seen. The President, with debonair disregard for proverbs about eggs in a single basket, took along Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall; COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King; Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army's Services of Supply; the President's alter ego Harry Hopkins. In Africa they were joined by Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General...
...ignored and rebuffed. Its leader, brilliant General Hsiung Shih-fei, had been assured, a place at the tables where United Nations high strategy is made. He presented his credentials to Franklin Roosevelt, met the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King. He set up headquarters in a modest brick house on Embassy Row, covered its walls with maps, got ready to proffer his precious information on the war in the East...