Word: edo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vice admirals (rank equals lieutenant general) the Navy has 21, including one "EDO" (Engineering Duty Only), five aviators, one aviation observer. Their average...
...commodores, the rank re-created by Congress in April 1943, the Navy has 23, including one EDO, six aviators. Commodores, who wear one star like the Army's brigadier generals, command small task forces; one is serving on Lord Louis Mountbatten's staff; one is commandant of the Naval Operations Base in Londonderry, Northern Ireland; one is chief of the Moroccan Sea Frontier. Youngest of the commodores-and youngest flag officer in the Navy-is Thomas Selby Combs, 45, commander of Navy Aircraft in the Southwest Pacific.*Advancement. Rules of seniority have controlled advancement in the Navy...