Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee that Navy morale was good and that the only dissatisfaction came from a few hotheads in the Navy's air arm. The Secretary of the Navy was treated to loud and sardonic laughter from his assembled subordinates when he protested that he knew of no "block" against naval officers' speaking their views...
...forwarding endorsement by Admiral Arthur W. Radford, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, added: "The majority of officers in the Pacific Fleet concur . . ." Most significantly, Chief of Naval Operations Louis Denfeld, who up to then had never raised his voice publicly against any decision of the Defense Department, had agreed and added: "Naval officers . . . are convinced that a Navy stripped of its offensive power means a nation stripped of its offensive power...
...Navy's Case. Next day, on Capitol Hill, in the full glare of newsreel lights. the Navy at last told what had been gnawing at its heart. Its spokesman was four-star Admiral Radford, the man naval aviators everywhere recognize as their champion, the officer who built the Navy's wartime air arm as director of aviation training, a brilliant fighting commander, and long an outspoken enemy of service unification...
...Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, Cordell Hull had "no special festivities" (but a flock of telegrams from the world's great) on his 78th birthday, his first outside Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital in four years...
Task Force. The ups & downs, through the years, of U.S. naval aviation, with a factual core of explosive Navy combat film and fictional trimmings involving Gary Cooper (TIME...