Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of their most ardent officers rashly strove to put the Navy above the dictates of the Government. Last week the inevitable crash occurred. President Harry Truman, acting with brutal directness, removed the service's highest-ranking officer, Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, as Chief of Naval Operations...
Anchors Aweigh. The effect of the announcement on Louis Denfeld and other naval officers was both strange and pathetic. Denfeld learned he had been fired only when Vice Admiral John Dale Price (who had gotten the news from a reporter) burst into his office and blurted: "Admiral, the President has just relieved you as Chief of Naval Operations." Denfeld looked up incredulously, said, in an odd voice, "Is that so?" and lapsed into stunned silence. Later he wept. Also he became a hero to the service...
...commanded the VII Corps at Normandy. Then he got in a low blow: "I was not associated with Admiral Denfeld during the war. I am not familiar with his experiences . . . [Denfeld, by order of his superiors, spent most of the war in Washington as Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel]. Undoubtedly it was because of this record that he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations...
...maneuver was one more small piece in the growing pattern of joint defense. Both Washington and Ottawa want a pool of officers and men who know how both services work. Recently Canada's Naval Air Group 18 finished an intensive three-month course at Quonset Point, R.I. With U.S. pilots, they concentrated on detecting and bombing schnorkel submarines. This month, the Canadian destroyer Halda spent two weeks training in Chesapeake Bay, then sailed with a U.S. Navy amphibious force for a practice assault on the coast of Labrador...
Task Force. The ups & downs, through the years, of U.S. naval aviation, with a factual core of spectacular Navy combat films and fictional trimmings involving Gary Cooper (TIME...