Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intent Man. At 53, Forrest Sherman is the youngest man (and first career airman) to be Chief of Naval Operations. A stocky man (5 ft. 9 in., 168 Ibs.) with a rolling, pigeon-toed gait, he has none of the traditional sea dog's look of shaggy-browed sternness. His smile is quick, friendly but curiously remote. His eyes appraise impersonally without open -approval or rancor, like the eyes of an airman inspecting an engine. Always, he keeps an air of detachment...
...living had to learn to like salt pork, the old man told him). One day, far out on Buzzards Bay, the old man died of a heart attack. Twelve-year-old Forrest was not rattled. He lowered the ensign to half-mast as stipulated by naval custom, sailed the catboat safely back to harbor...
...when Nimitz became Chief of Naval Operations, he gave Sherman the job of working out the unification agreement. Sherman dutifully sat down with his friend Lieut. General Lauris Norstad of the Army Air Force and negotiated agreement. To the anti-unification Navymen, led by Vice Admiral Arthur Radford, this was just short of treason to their service. When Denfeld brought Radford to Washington as his vice chief, Sherman went off to take command of the Mediterranean Fleet...
Precision Tools. There Sherman became an on-the-ground leader in the cold war, learned the uses of naval forces as "the precision tools of diplomacy." He flung 80 planes over Italy at election time. His ships visited North African ports, dropped in at Naples, Trieste and Athens. Sherman took tea with Britain's Earl Mountbatten, visited the Pope, swam with Greece's King Paul and his Queen...
...almost a month every Academy man in the fleet had squirmed with embarrassment while square-jawed Captain W. D. Brown stubbornly maintained that he was just about the last man in the world to blame for running the battleship Missouri aground in Chesapeake Bay. As a naval court of inquiry dug into the humiliating mishap of the Mighty Mo, Captain Brown insisted that "I was utterly alone as far as any assistance from my team was concerned" and caught up in an "unfortunate chain of circumstances...