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Salute to Hewitt...
General Patch is a fine fellow and a great leader on land, undoubtedly, but anyone will tell you that until the Army is ashore and headquartered, the amphibious attack is in the hands of the top naval officer-this time Vice-Admiral H. Kent Hewitt...
...yards offshore in broad daylight? How about the gigantic task of collecting all these "some 1,000 ships" divided into three distinct forces and bringing them to the right place at exactly the right moment? And how about the Admirals in charge of these Task Forces under Hewitt-Rear Admirals Frank J. Lowry, Bertram J. Rodgers, and Spencer Lewis...
...Admiral Hewitt & Co. who have by no means gone unmentioned in TIME (July 26, 1943), rate a 15-gun salute for good work in five tough amphibious operations: the landings in Africa, Sicily, at Salerno, Anzio, Southern France. Possessor of one of the U.S. Navy's most brilliant mathematical minds, Admiral Hewitt is one of the prime organizers of U.S. amphibious warfare...
...with such teetotal prohibition, in force in the Navy since 1914, Vice Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, U.S. naval commander in the Mediterranean, this week told newsmen that the rule should be lifted to allow beer on U.S. ships...