Word: cominch
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...then rides back to the Munitions Building at about 2 p.m. One day of the week he lunches with the other members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, then spends the afternoon with Admiral King and other top sea dogs. At these sessions, the Chief of Staff and the COMINCH make an oddly effective pair: General Marshall is among the few in Washington who really know how to get along with briny Admiral King, and one of the miracles of World War II is the cordial state of Army-Navy relations at the top, however sour they may sometimes...
...nominations gave belated, deserved recognition to Navy airmen. But one sore spot remained: career airmen do not yet have a satisfactory place on COMINCH. Ernest King's staff, hence have little to say in the Navy's grand strategy...
...Others in the same category: COMINCH Ernest Joseph King, who became a Pensacola admiral at 49. He once commanded the Lexington, but his real love is submarines. Vice Admiral Frederick Joseph Home, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, who became a naval air observer at 46. He once commanded the 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...
...toughest diplomatic mission: emissary to Vichyfrance. As Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Seadog Leahy will need diplomacy. Working directly with and under the President, he will be over the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest Joseph King. But whether Leahy would be a real boss, or a glorified errand boy and transmission agency for the Commander in Chief, still lay with a President who is slow to delegate important responsibilities...
...Navy's communiqué was a model of frankness, a relatively complete and orderly account. It was also proof that the Navy's crack COMINCH, Admiral Ernest Joseph King, had determined to make an honest effort to give the people the facts of battle. The Navy told the bad (or most of it) with the good. But there was more good than...