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...became a naval air observer at 46. He once commanded the carrier Saratoga, later the Fleet's aircraft battle force. Rear Admiral Arthur Byron Cook, onetime BuAer chief, now in charge of aircraft operating with the Atlantic Fleet, who learned to fly at 54 Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., the Navy's senior admiral at sea, COMCARPAC (Commander of Carriers in the Pacific) until Admiral Towers' new appointment, who got his flight training at 53. Nonetheless Halsey is rated the most experienced of U.S. aviator commanders, has a real knowledge of the functions of aircraft] which...
Also back in Washington last week were two other Congressmen newly returned from wartime service: shrewd, taciturn Francis Eugene Walter of Pennsylvania, after six months of offshore patrol out of Norfolk, Va., and short, blond Warren Grant Magnuson of Washington who served with Admiral Halsey on Pacific task-force expeditions. They will have to stay on land, under a new Presidential order, until Franklin Roosevelt decides they are needed on active duty again. Until then, Representatives Johnson, Walter and Magnuson can tell fellow-Congressmen what modern war is really like...
...other major U.S. actions (so far as known) have all been naval or air encounters in the Far East, and all substantially successful. One group of these: task-force operations, the brilliant raids led by Vice Admiral Halsey on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, on Wake and Marcus. Others were miscellaneous actions such as that in which Lieut, (now Lieut. Commander) O'Hare shot down five Jap bombers when a U.S. task force was itself under attack...
...Admiral Nimitz could thank his task-force commanders, sea dogs like bushy-browed Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr., a naval aviator who knows the 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...
...good show, the second the Navy had given west of Pearl Harbor. More important than that, it happened weeks ago. U.S. citizens waited hopefully for the next time Bill Halsey's task force turned up at its home port...