Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monaghan to Hopkins. Admiral Holloway was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in June 1898, the famous year in which the Maine blew up in Havana harbor, Commodore Dewey gave the order in Manila Bay-"You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," and the Navy moved into its new role of world responsibility. In 1904 his father, Dr. James Lemuel Holloway Sr., an osteopath who at 98 is still widely respected in the Southwest, moved his family to Dallas. There Jim went to Oak-cliff High School (now Adamson High), made a name as a varsity football tackle, a member...
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 the North Africa landings. He got the Legion of Merit for a brilliant training job commanding the Atlantic Fleet's Bermuda-based shakedown group for new destroyers and destroyer escorts. In late 1944 he pleaded against Navy Secretary Jim Forrestal's ruling that he must stay...
...they invited him over to whip their hodgepodge of an air force into battle trim. Now he was in his natural element. He sent radio-equipped coolies to the far frontiers to crank out warning of every Nipponese air strike. He saw the big show coming, and by Pearl Harbor, bossed an air force of trained American volunteers, which never numbered more than 55 flyable P-40s and 80 pilots. For $600 a month and $500 a kill, his Flying Tigers knocked the Zeros out of the sky. "Make 'em play your way," he said, and his pilots...
...seven months after Pearl Harbor, the Tigers racked up 284 kills and 300 probables, in exchange for twelve pilots, two crew chiefs and 21 planes. He rewrote the book of aerial combat, insisting on two-plane teams, dropping the first fire bombs on the inflammable architecture of the East, coaching his sky raiders to dive, squirt, pass and run. He lived on rice and red ants, coffee and cigarettes; he dwelt in mud and bamboo; he dressed in shorts and a billed, battered, nondescript cap. "Old Leatherface,'' the Chinese fondly called him, and guarded his precious store...
...United States has failed to prepare "for the educational Pearl Harbor toward which we are rushing," charged Eric A. Walker, president of Pennsylvania State University, at the opening public session of the Conference on Education and Science, Monday night...