Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hottest days of the summer, a parade of about 5,000-military and naval units, city employees, policemen, firemen and seven bands under limp silk flags-marched up Broadway. In front of City Hall, party bosses, military commanders, the consuls of some 50 foreign nations, City Council President Vincent Impellitteri, the mayor's pretty wife in an aqua velveteen hat, and Bill O'Dwyer arrayed themselves on a hastily constructed platform. Seven policemen and an octogenarian deputy fire commissioner collapsed in the heat. O'Dwyer presented Grover Whalen with a $450 gold medal for "extraordinary public service...
...primer on naval power, this: historically, sea power is the most mobile and therefore the most economical form of military force. For 3,000 years or more, navies fought on the two-dimensional ocean surface. The carrier-based plane gave navies the third dimension of the air. It has even given them a sort of fourth dimension-a sweep of 500 miles or more inland from any coast. Nearly all the economic and political power centers of the world lie within 500 miles of deep water...
...danger that lay in the Kremlin's ability to start a series of brush fires (a la Korea) which might have to be quenched one by one. They knew that Britain had kept order along the coasts of the world by flying the Union Jack and dispatching naval power when that symbol of order was flouted. This was why Radford & Co. in their basic philosophy were closer than their Army or Air Force colleagues to the subtle interaction of prestige, politics and physical force. The Korean war is a weirdly pertinent example of the warning that Radford & Co. were...
...with Three Hats. Radford is generally regarded by his friends and admirers as one of the two most brilliant men in the active Navy. The other is 53-year-old Forrest Sherman, who, as CNO (Chief of Naval Operations), holds the Navy's top job. Sherman is also a carrier admiral-in fact, the first Navy flyer to become...
...divisions) in Korea-the and, 24th and 25th Infantry, the ist Cavalry, the 1st Marine-plus the 5th RCT (regimental combat team) from Hawaii, plus unidentified reinforcements which went into the line last week. The South Koreans had five divisions more on the line. Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, revealed that thousands of marines were en route from the U.S. The first ground troops from other United Nations were also en route...