Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief of the Navy's war plans section, was so positive about war and where the blow would fall, why were all the other topmost admirals out of step with him? Admiral Turner considered himself the chief adviser of Admiral Harold R. Stark, then chief of naval operations. But "Betty" Stark, in mid-October 1941, had written to Kimmel: "I do not believe that the Japs are going to sail into us." Reminded of that letter, Kelly Turner was unperturbed. Said he: "I was very astonished when I first saw that." He also volunteered the information that Vice Admiral...
...Milton Eisenhower (younger brother of General Ike). ¶ Appointed a six-man delegation, headed by Circuit Court Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, of Houston, to an Anglo-American committee which will investigate the Arab-Jewish deadlock in Palestine. ¶ Paid a pre-Christmas visit to wounded veterans in the Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Army's Walter Reed Hospital. ¶ Put balding, affable Wilson Wyatt, ex-Mayor of Louisville, into the hot spot of U.S. housing expediter...
When he goes home, Di Gates will have finished his second big job for the Navy. A Cedar Rapids, Iowa boy who had starred on Yale football teams in 1915 and '16, he was one of the early U.S. naval aviators of World War I. Thrice decorated, he was shot down by the Germans in France. Captured, he escaped, made his way toward the Swiss frontier and then, three days before the Armistice, was captured again. His peacetime career was equally spectacular-he became the New York Trust's president at 33. He went to Washington...
...have earned the right to return to private pursuits ... it was under your direction that the naval air arm played a major role ... in the Atlantic . . . and in driving to ultimate victory in the Pacific...
...Japs surrendered before he could strike a blow. Last week to Birdman Towers came as much recognition and vindication as he could now expect; with an admiral's four stars, he was named to succeed Spruance as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas. Naval aviators, already winning key posts in Washington (TIME, Dec. 10), were at last, if tardily, getting some of the top sea commands. Raymond Spruance headed ashore to run the Naval War College...