Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warships of the Seventh Fleet, assigned to Formosa patrol, regularly tie up at the island's ports. Even...
...will go to Paris and Rome within a month. With the help of the 18 four-engine airplanes (DC-4s, Stratocruisers and Constellations) that it acquired in the deal, Pan Am stepped up weekly transatlantic crossings from 22 to 29. Juan Trippe still did not think its 144-plane fleet big enough. To replace aging DC-4s on the South American run, Pan Am last week signed a $21 million contract for 18 new four-engine Douglas DC-6Bs,* to be delivered...
...around us lay the invasion fleet. It felt good to see the APAs and LSTs and other craft spread far across the sea. Ashore, our third battalion was already assaulting Wolmi Island (see above). Rumors flew about that the Wolmi assault was a bloody one. That made us all quite nervous. Then we heard that the assault was easy, and casualties light. That made us feel better about going after Inchon that afternoon...
...Korea with the 23,000 marines who had spearheaded Douglas MacArthur's assault. Up to the time when the first marine set foot ashore, the heaviest responsibility lay on Rear Admiral James H. ("Jimmy") Doyle, amphibious attack commander, and on Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the Seventh Fleet, who softened up the shore defenses and got the troops to the beaches. After all troops were ashore, the ground fighting would be taken over by General Almond as commander of MacArthur's X Corps. Between times, the heaviest responsibility for the success or failure of Operation Chromite...
President Truman's decision to send the Seventh Fleet to the defense of Formosa was considered a false move by Reischauer. Truman, he said, "made a mistake in underwriting the Chiang regime in Formosa...