Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While on Midway Island Harlow contracted malaria which ended in a high blood pressure condition after three months in Naval hospitals. Released from service in the spring of 1946 Harlow returned to Cambridge in the fall, although far from his pre-war health...
Harlow was first laid low by his high blood pressure while serving as a lieutenant, commander in the Navy on Midway-Island in 1943. After spending all of 1944 in various naval hospitals, he was finally discharged for disability...
...done for other fields what Van Wyck Brooks did for New England letters. No one has written a comparable flowering of American industry, or of American military or naval life. It may be that such works will never be written, that the American achievement in other spheres has been too diversified and chaotic, its conflicts too bitter, its heroes too narrow...
When shrewd, burly Admiral Louis Denfeld was made Chief of Naval Operations (TIME, Nov. 24), the morale of Navy airmen, already low, sank into the bilges. Admiral Denfeld was a submarine and battleship man. The only thing he knew about air power, the airmen grumbled, was what he learned from watching Jap Kamikazes dive on his battleship division off Okinawa...
...trick was to break through Administration politics and force his man into the job. Last week he did it. The victory was won when the White House announced that Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, the Navy's most outspoken airman, would be Denfeld's vice chief of naval operations...