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Another topflight airman, Arthur William Radford, would also be upped to vice admiral and would relieve Marc Andrew Mitscher as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air. "Pete" Mitscher, who had been squirming at his desk and itching for sea duty, would get his wish-as commander of the Eighth Fleet in the Atlantic probably with four-star rank...
...hazard in that quarter-deck doctrine was that reactionary thinking in post-World War II might set in, not only among the battleship admirals (who actually were in retreat) but among the airmen. Men like Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, and even younger aviators like Rear Admiral Arthur Radford might become wedded to the carrier, which had spearheaded the war.* Not to be overlooked by prophets is the fact that after World War I the radicals thought the naval weapon of the future was the submarine. In 1913 amiable, conservative Admiral Richard S. Edwards...
...regular; to exuberant Reserve Captain Luis de Florez, onetime consulting engineer to several oil companies, who is responsible for most of the Navy's special training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer, now his special assistant...
...Forward-looking Marc Mitscher reassured his followers, however, by declaring that, while the carrier was now the backbone of the fleet, "new weapons may eliminate surface craft...
Counterbattery. The Navy was far from being caught unprepared by the Army's offensive, but still it had to improvise a defense. Secretary Forrestal conferred time & again, sometimes until far into the night, with the top brass in his department-Admirals King and Edwards, Home and Mitscher-and was still working feverishly at week's end to perfect a line which would fend off the Army without offending the public...