Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cushman, commander of the Fleet Marine Force. Radford was well pleased. He has no command responsibility for the fighting ships off Asia's coast. Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, who commands the Seventh Fleet, takes his orders from Vice Admiral Charles Joy, who is MacArthur's Far East naval commander, and MacArthur takes his from the Chiefs of Staff. The carriers are commanded by folksy, twinkling Rear Admiral John ("Uncle John") Hoskins, who in World War II lost a foot in a Jap attack on the light carrier Princeton. Every Navy officer in the Pacific knows that Radford...
...warships, as well as for staging land-based air. Okinawa, a major base for the Air Force's B-29s, is not now being used by the Navy but is on standby status. So is Kwajalein. Two bases in Japan (Yokosuka and Sasebo) are capable of handling large naval forces, and a twin base in the Philippines (Subic Bay plus nearby Sangley Point) will take small ones...
...indefinite period. This force must contain mobile elements that can be quickly dispatched to future Koreas. We can't hope to compete with the Communists on a manpower basis, but we can build up an organization that can apply superior power at the right time and place. Naval and Marine forces are designed for just such eventualities...
...born in Chicago in 1896) was one of these. It was a matter of considerable surprise to Radford's father-a Canadian-born civil engineer who had moved on from Chicago to Grinnell, Iowa-when young Arthur told him, one fine day, that he was headed for the Naval Academy...
...help the boy pass his entrance exams, Radford's father sent him to a naval prep school in Annapolis. Arthur cut morning classes to cross the Severn and watch a group of the Navy's air pioneers fly their 1912-model crates. He did not realize that he was missing a 9 o'clock roll call until his father wrote a chiding letter about his truancy...