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Word: ghormley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potency of the swift attack, sighted and powered from the air; and scholarly Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who helped give the Jap a mauling in the Marshall Islands raids. These and others were the men who carried out his tasks: broad-stripers like Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, new commander in New Zealand, and Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, onetime Superintendent of the Naval Academy and now Commander of the Pacific Scouting Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: IN THE CORAL SEA | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...Betty" Stark will headquarter in London where he will work with the British Admiralty. He will relieve studious, crag-faced Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, who is headed for a sea command, probably an important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense - NAVY: Sundownet's Sunrise | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...London the President dispatched brilliant Rear Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, who until recently was Assistant Chief of Naval Operations in charge of war plans. Rear Admiral Ghormley's talents fit him to watch British naval warfare, post the President on developments which affect U. S. naval strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: On the Job | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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