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...islands is a planning headache to U.S. military men. But the U.S., at week's end, showed that it was more than willing to back up its blunt diplomatic talk with military beef. To the Seventh Fleet of Vice Admiral Wallace ("Beak") Beakley steamed the carrier Essex and four destroyers from the Middle East, the big carrier Midway and the heavy cruiser Los Angeles from the West Coast. U.S. fighters rolled onto the ready line on Formosa, and Tactical Air Force sent out from the states a reinforcing squadron along with air cargo support planes from the Military Transport...
...reports of artillery duels, the inconclusive sea skirmishes and occasional dogfights between MIGs and Sabre jets, the U.S. sought to decide how serious were Communist intentions in Formosa Strait and concluded that even a probing action required an unmistakable response. The dispatch to Formosan waters of the U.S. carrier Essex-which in mid-July was helping to land marines in Lebanon-and the dispatch from Pearl Harbor of the big Midway the next day were ordered to make a show of force and to dramatize U.S. concern. As an added evidence of U.S. activity, Secretary of the Army Wilber...
...hospital with her before taking a long walk home, as he put it, "to become healthfully fatigued and then to sleep." In October 1956 Jean Holloway died. Their son, Commander James L. Holloway III, Annapolis '42, is now commanding a jet squadron aboard the attack carrier Essex in the Sixth Fleet off Lebanon...
...found Burke still in his office, the Navy deployed, the lead battalion of Marines on the Beirut beaches. The Sixth Fleet's 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga and support carrier Wasp, with 40-ship escort, were riding offshore. Reinforcements, including the guided-missile cruiser Boston and attack carrier Essex, were steaming up from Greek waters. Sweeps of AD Skyraider and A4D Skyhawk bombers, plus F8U Crusader interceptors, were heading out over Lebanon and Jordan. Burke's follow-through: in Lebanon a second Marine battalion landed, then a third. Back across the Atlantic the carrier Antietam loaded...
Near five o'clock, however, a lone bus stole furtively away from Essex with no calling from the loudspeaker, lest the party be broken up on the spot...