Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of President Truman's thoughts ran deep last week. He sat in the glaring Arlington Memorial Amphitheater on a broiling (temperature: 94°) Washington afternoon for the funeral of his chief of naval operations, Forrest Sherman. Though other civilians sat with their heads bared, the President at first kept his hat on. So did Old Soldier George Marshall, sitting nearby-perhaps unconsciously following the custom of men in uniform. After ten minutes, the President suddenly removed his hat and so did Secretary Marshall. Later, Harry Truman confided to some of the honorary pallbearers that he would like...
...shocked sense of sudden loss struck the nation. Upon his death, at 54, the U.S. was only beginning to realize the full stature which Sherman had assumed. When Sherman took over the Navy, late in 1949, as the youngest Chief of Naval Operations in history, he found an embittered, bickering service, smoldering with animosity against its fellow services, the Administration, against Admiral Sherman himself. By his able advocacy of Navy views, by his quietly effective defense of Navy abilities, the new CNO quickly restored order and confidence. The newest member of the J.C.S. (replacing Admiral Denfeld, who was sacked...
Requiem. Sherman (Annapolis '17) became a naval aviator after World War I, was soon one of the Navy's best (he won a personal "E" for dive bombing and fighter gunnery). During World War II, as skipper of the aircraft carrier Wasp, he won a Navy Cross for his handling of the ship when she was torpedoed off Guadalcanal. Later, as Admiral Chester Nimitz' chief planner, he devised the Navy's brilliant leapfrog tactics in the fight across the Pacific...
...Admiral Forrest Sherman, who was to die a few days later (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), talked with Franco in Madrid and reached a preliminary agreement that should lead to U.S. air and naval bases in Spain in return for U.S. economic...
Died. Admiral Forrest Percival Sherman, 54, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations; of a heart attack; in Naples, Italy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...