Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land-based aircraft which helped .turn the tide at Guadalcanal, led Marine conquests on Bougainville, Guam, Peleliu, Okinawa, became the first Marine ever to command an entire army (the U.S. 10th), on the death of General Simon B. Buckner Jr.; succeeded General Holland M. Smith as commander of the Fleet Marine Force...
...details had been worked out in scores of conferences between Major General Lauris Norstad, one of the Army's keenest strategists, and Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, an airborne sailor who has long been Fleet Admiral Nimitz' brain trust. Sitting in, when higher echelons were called for, were Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal and the Army's W. Stuart Symington, Assistant Secretary...
...boss of the War Shipping Administration's small vessels, he ran a fleet of hundreds of tugs, including those of private companies such as his own. His most brilliant feat was Operation Mulberry. The British had constructed two floating harbors, each the size of Dover. The 150 huge concrete caissons and 60 blunt-nosed ships (which formed the breakwater) were to be anchored off the Normandy beaches. But the problem of towing them across got so snarled up that Ed Moran was finally called in to straighten it out, was put in charge of the whole operation...
...Moran has his eye on six more deep-sea tugs that the Maritime Commission has put on sale. If Operation Netherlands is a success, Ed Moran thinks he might buy them, have a fleet powerful enough to take on all comers...
...another thought. Rear Admiral James Lemuel Holloway Jr. did. Not long afterwards, Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal put Holloway at the head of a ten-man board (including two civilian educators) to revamp Navy edu. cation. The Navy had realized that it would desperately need officers for the postwar fleet-far more than the Naval Academy could turn...