Word: commander
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...potentially no farther away than the air space over a neighbor's backyard, the U.S. learned last week. "The Department of Defense," announced Secretary Charles Wilson, "has begun deployment of nuclear weapons within the United States for air-defense purposes." In plain words, the Continental Air Defense Command now has added the sinew of the nuclear warhead. Atom-armed air-to-air rockets and surface-to-air missiles deployed in strategic places in the U.S. can, if need be, thunder into the path of any known enemy bomber...
From his flagship Enterprise, Radford led Carrier Division II through the Gilbert Island landings, improvising air and sea tactics to meet each crisis, running his ships and men with warm command and cold logic. In May 1944 he was hustled back to Washington as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air), where he beat loud drums for the cause of naval aviation and produced the Radford Report, a skillful survey of the delivery, combat use, rotation, repair and relocation of aircraft. Brought back to the Pacific in November 1944, when Japanese naval forces were dwindling fast, Radford was appointed commander...
After the British cuts, Norstad will have fewer than 15 divisions in his command-though the French have promised to restore to the NATO shield "as soon as possible" two divisions withdrawn last year for service in North Africa...
...published this week in Britain, Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, Britain's top wartime strategist, bluntly assesses many of his military contemporaries, including the three U.S. generals leading the conflict. Alanbrooke's impressions of Soldier Dwight Eisenhower: "He learned a lot during the war, but strategy, tactics and command were never his strong points." Ike was a great overall coordinator, but "perhaps his greatest asset was a greater share of luck than most of us receive in life." Of George Catlett Marshall: "A big man and a very great gentleman," who did not "impress me by the ability...
...than it had hoped, is busy working on a family of supersecret missiles to take up the slack. Lockheed, too, may see some slowdown in orders for its sizzling (upwards of 1,300 m.p.h.) F-104 Starfighter. The Pentagon plans to close out several wings in the Air Defense Command and Tactical Air Command, some of which were to be equipped with F-104s. Yet Lockheed denies any cuts in planned F-104 production, reportedly has firm orders for hundreds of planes. Lockheed's commercial backlog is also fat with orders for Constellations and its new turboprop Electra airliner...