Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearing his famous broad-billed cap, perched on a high stool on the flag bridge facing aft ("only a damn fool faces into the wind"), Mitscher directed the mightiest naval unit in history in a soft, flat monotone that belied the compressed fury with which he fought. He was never known to get excited, even when Kamikaze flyers almost literally blew him off the flagships Bunker Hill and Enterprise...
...July 1945 the fierce, cool, little man had all but burned himself out. He came home for a rest, then was ordered to duty as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air. He had always detested paper work, and by December he was back on sea duty as commander of the Eighth Fleet. Nine months later, he took over the Atlantic Fleet...
This week, at 60, in the Norfolk Naval Hospital, Pete Mitscher died of coronary thrombosis. History made room for him among the U.S. Navy's heroes...
First of a 14-volume "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II" to roll off the press, Professor Morison's book covers the period from October 1942 to June 1943, and was written largely from personal observations...
Died. Lieut. General Roy Stanley Geiger, 61, grizzled, flinty-eyed pioneer Marine airman, hero of two wars ; of phlebitis and pulmonary complications; in Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital. Forty years a leatherneck, Geiger rose from private to three-star rank, commanded all land-based aircraft which helped .turn the tide at Guadalcanal, led Marine conquests on Bougainville, Guam, Peleliu, Okinawa, became the first Marine ever to command an entire army (the U.S. 10th), on the death of General Simon B. Buckner Jr.; succeeded General Holland M. Smith as commander of the Fleet Marine Force...