Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Monday night, Dean Acheson also made the motion to send the Seventh Fleet to protect Formosa, "to my great surprise and my relief," said Johnson...
...Quibble. Before the meeting adjourned, Johnson told the President that he wanted to start the fleet moving from the Philippines toward Japan. "The President said, 'That is a good idea, do it.' I turned to Admiral Sherman and said, 'If you will excuse yourself, you get it started right away.' " The meeting adjourned and the following night the conferees met again at Blair House. "The Secretary of State moved, reading from a prepared statement, that we send the Navy and Air Force in ... The military neither recommended nor opposed it. We had on the previous evening...
...Pacific Fleet Air Force
...Fleet...
...waiting C-54 and roared off to a forward area landing strip in Korea. Within minutes, eleven light planes had joined it-like rooks gliding in for a fence-rail convention. Almost all the brass in Korea, from the Eighth Army's Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet to commanders of the allied detachments fighting in Korea, had been summoned. In Washington, Dean Acheson said that he didn't know that the Defense Secretary had left town...