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Iowa to Christmas. Pearl Harbor found Jim Holloway 43 years old, a commander in charge of the gunnery section of the office of Chief of Naval Operations. He put in for sea duty soonest, was cited by the Navy Secretary for "aggressive fighting spirit" while commanding Destroyer Squadron Ten in...
To the Shores of ... That night Burke stayed in his office, catnapping every now and then in a big leather sofa, speaking over single-sideband radio to Holloway and to the Sixth Fleet commander, Vice Admiral Charles R. ("Cat") Brown, swamping down coffee, sucking on his pipe, reading the red...
ARMED FORCES Carrier New York State champagne frothed across the bow of the fourth of the U.S.'s 60,000-ton Forrestal-class supercarriers at the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn last week, and the Navy christened her Independence. The Navy's provisional date for commissioning Independence...
But to Ro Lancaster the postwar U.S. is a broken Samson. Old New Dealing pals turn against him when he warns of the rising Communist menace. His best friend, ex-U.S. Defense Secretary Roger Thurloe (a fictional double of the late James Forrestal), exhausted and embittered by the spectacle...
¶In the third period. Navy End Pete Jokanovich leaned across the line and made a startling offer to Rice End Gene Jones: "Hey, kid, you want a ticket to the game?" In Jokanovich's grimy fist were two tickets for the Cotton Bowl. His gag had a sharp...