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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-prepared, frequently tested contingency war plans for the Middle East. Outline of the J.C.S. contingency plan for Lebanon: 1) move about 5,000 Marines of the Sixth Fleet into Beirut within hours, 2) move about 25,000 men of all services into the Middle East within a week. Key to the Lebanon plan: the Navy's Sixth Fleet, which had been hovering off Lebanon for three months and patrolling the Mediterranean for eight years to head off just this kind of emergency...
...Twining brought word to J.C.S. meeting No. 3 that the President's orders were to move into Lebanon, and to move immediately. Twining emphasized that the mission was not to fight Lebanon's rebels, nor to intervene in Iraq, but to secure the Lebanese government and its key centers in and around Beirut, e.g., Beirut International Airport. As Lebanon would be primarily a Navy show, at least at the outset, the J.C.S. executive agent was Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke. At 6:23 p.m. the J.C.S. signaled Vice Admiral James Lemuel ("Lord Jim") Holloway Jr., commander...
...seething Middle East scene, entrusted with frontline authority to move quickly, boldly and, if necessary, aggressively, were these four key U.S. figures last week...
Died. Vice Admiral James Henry Flatley. U.S.N.. 52, aerial-gunnery expert and World War II ace in the Pacific, skipper of Fighter Squadron No. 10, who won the Navy Cross in the Battle of the Coral Sea, was later a key figure with Navy's postwar air-training program; of cancer; in Bethesda...
...Key. A subtle, fascinating story of Britain's ocean-going tugboat captains of World War II, and of the woman several of them loved; with Sophia Loren, William Holden, Trevor Howard (TIME, July...