Word: naval
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Under strict orders to rest and stay quiet after his recent heart attack (TIME. July 11), Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson gazed innocently up from his National Naval Medical Center bed and told doctors of his abiding love for hillbilly music. If he could just have a radio to listen to the comin'-round-the-mountaineers, Johnson hinted, it would help relax him. The doctors considered and agreed. Johnson got his radio, and was soon listening to every news broadcast and political commentator that he could reach on the dial. There are few things that he loathes more than...
Died. Brigadier General Walter N. Hill, 73, wartime head of the Marine Corps Naval Examining Board, Medal of Honor winner in the Vera Cruz campaign in Mexico in 1914; in St. Albans Naval Hospital, New York City...
MIDWAY, THE BATTLE THAT DOOMED JAPAN (266 pp.)-Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya-U.S. Naval Institute...
...raid, launched in April 1942 from the U.S. carrier Hornet, that clinched the sea lords' new course of conquest. They decided to turn east, to capture Midway Island (1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor) and use this outpost as an advance base for Japanese air patrols. As naval strategists they calculated that the attack would draw out the last remnant of the U.S. fleet-including those annoying U.S. flattops that had escaped the Pearl Harbor massacre...
...well aware, in hindsight, that U.S. code crackers found out Japan's plans in advance. Fuchida and his coauthor, another officer who survived the disaster, quote U.S. Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison's verdict that Midway was "a victory of intelligence." They have practically nothing good to say for their leaders' performance. They find the Imperial Navy's intelligence "ineffective." its plan "faulty," its technology backward (only the U.S. had radar at Midway), its security procedures far slacker than before the Pearl Harbor attack. In the first week of June 1942, they say, all Japanese suffered...