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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When shrewd, burly Admiral Louis Denfeld was made Chief of Naval Operations (TIME, Nov. 24), the morale of Navy airmen, already low, sank into the bilges. Admiral Denfeld was a submarine and battleship man. The only thing he knew about air power, the airmen grumbled, was what he learned from watching Jap Kamikazes dive on his battleship division off Okinawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Up from the Bilges | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...even if Louis Denfeld was no airman, he knew where to find a good one to take over the Navy's No. 2 spot and the job of running the Navy's air arm. The trick was to break through Administration politics and force his man into the job. Last week he did it. The victory was won when the White House announced that Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, the Navy's most outspoken airman, would be Denfeld's vice chief of naval operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Up from the Bilges | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...last week, Denfeld went to see his old & good friend Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's chief of staff. In his half-smothered bass voice, pounding his fist on the desk, mild Louis Denfeld told Leahy that he wanted Radford and nobody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Up from the Bilges | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...replace aging Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations, President Truman last week picked Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 56, commander of the Pacific Fleet. A onetime chief of naval personnel, Denfeld was a proved administrator, well-liked on Capitol Hill, but no airman. It was a clear-cut victory for the Navy's tightly knit battleship clique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Big Gun Victory | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Said the Navy's personnel chief, Vice Admiral Louis Denfeld: "I question that 'McVay will ever again get a command of great responsibility ... or ever become an admiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: End of the Indianapolis Case | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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