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...GAFFREY Coronado, Calif...
Rear Admiral William L. Erdmann spent 36 years in the U.S. Navy building a reputation as a hard-nosed officer with a magnificent temper and a monumental self-confidence. From Coronado (where the enlisted men's beach was named Erdmann Beach) to Guam (where he stirred up a superb row by refusing to supply the Governor with side boys) he was known as "The Big E."† His strapping (6 ft. 4 in., 230 lbs.) frame never seemed to stop swelling with rage when he uncoiled from behind a desk to bawl out some wilting subordinate. But last week...
...Coronado, Calif...
...flying within jet-age spitting distance of Red Chinese airfields, but Midway was having a run of hard luck. One F3H squadron had lost two pilots and three planes in accidents within the week. The day I joined Force 77 the squadron's skipper, Commander Walter Heider of Coronado, Calif., died when his throttle apparently stuck after landing and his plane plunged overboard out of control...
...Marshall Islands to the Caribbean in his own hunt for sunny weather, clear water, exotic fauna and flora. Last year he tied himself under a canoe, inspected coral reefs off the Colombian coast of South America while an Indian paddled. This week he is filming near Mexico's Coronado Islands. Soon he will scout the waters off Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti-as well as Samoa, where some World War I German cruisers are rumored to lie photogenically scuttled...