Word: fitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were the principal shifts fortnight ago, in the biggest command stir-up the Navy has had since the war began. Other changes included handsome Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, 62, who made way for Mitscher and will become superintendent of the Naval Academy, where one of his first big chores will be to bring flight training to the school and make its graduates as air-wise as West Point's; sardonic Vice Admiral "Genial John" Hoover, 58, one of the Navy's crack administrators, who gets the staff job left vacant by Jack Towers; Rear Admiral Louis...
...COMINCH" corridor, on the second "deck" forward of the Navy Building in Washington, leads to the austere office of the fleet Commander in Chief, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Down this formidable channel, one day recently, steamed Vice-Admiral Aubrey Fitch. He bore with him a topside-shaking plan...
...rest. After that, he was due for the shore-based post now held by Aubrey Fitch: Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, little more than an administrative post-unless he got the new job which airmen hoped he would...
Unlike some admirals, he had never gone to Pensacola in middle age to take a course in aviation which would qualify him to wear wings. But he listened attentively while his flying officers-"Bull" Halsey, Forrest ("Fuzz") Sherman, Frederick ("Ted") Sherman, Aubrey W. ("Jake") Fitch-argued the case of the carrier-cruiser task force. Nimitz was convinced. He sent Halsey out on the hit-run raids which buoyed the fleet's morale, and the nation's, early...
...Navy has multiplied its air power 20 times, adding a total of 57,600 planes. In a report of his own, Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, chief of naval air operations, noted that the Navy had 34,071 planes on hand June 30*; that among some 100 carriers, 14 are first-line Essex class, nine are Independence (converted cruiser) class...