Word: cominch
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Admiral Speaks. To Admiral King of "the silent service," loquacity is a vice, and in public he has said very little. The Marshall and Gilbert Island raids had briefly lifted American spirits, Singapore and Java had fallen, Bataan was falling, and Admiral King had become both OPNAV and COMINCH when he said in March: "Our days of victory are in the making...
...first year was ending, and it had been a Navy year. The tall, taut man who is both Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) let his mind go back to the morning of Pearl Harbor, and observed that the Japanese probably had not expected their attack to be so successful. Said Admiral Ernest Joseph King: "If they had it to do over, I think you would probably find them moving in with a tremendous invasion force such as they brought against us at Midway...
...Admiral. When the Japanese bombs and torpedoes shattered the peace and sleep of Pearl Harbor, Admiral King was on the Navy's second ocean, directing the Atlantic Fleet's undeclared war of 1941. In mid-December, when he was summoned to Washington to be COMINCH of all the fleets, "Betty" Stark was doing his limited best as OPNAV. The Utah and the Arizona gaped from their graves at Oahu, ships slightly more fortunate were being readied for removal and repair, and bombed planes still made ugly piles on the Army fields. The Japs were closing on Manila, hacking...
...human hero of World War II ever received a more rousing welcome. River boats tootled their greetings, sailors swarmed over the decks of adjoining ships to wave and yell at her, thousands of workmen set up a cheer. A bosun piped lean Admiral Ernest J. King, COMINCH, aboard; he grimly surveyed the damage, examined the six Japanese flags painted beneath her bridge. Said he: "Well done." Said grinning Captain Mike Moran: "She's a grand ship...
Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall said that Army men were "deeply grateful for the skillful seamanship that has escorted 800,000 of them safely across the submarine-infested waters of the Atlantic and Pacific." Admiral Ernest J. King, COMINCH, said that General Marshall's letter gave "evidence enough, if evidence is needed, to assure our fellow citizens that all the armed forces of the United States are united in singleness of purpose...