Word: navymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost the chance to change the course of the war. What-might-have-been in the Philippine Sea, i.e., the destruction of MacArthur's shipping, might have been a serious, but probably not a decisive Setback. What-was turned out to be a bright page in history. To Navymen, and particularly naval airmen, black-browed, husky Bull Halsey was more than ever one of the sea's immortals...
...finally handed down its decision, but everything was ready. Promptly the Marine Corps announced that its seafaring air group commander was barrel-chested, 44-year-old Colonel Albert D. Cooley, veteran of Bougainville. Colonel Cooley will never become an admiral: the Marine carriers will be manned and commanded by Navymen. But he will boss a potent striking force: several squadrons of gull-winged, bomb-bearing Vought Corsairs, the first to be put in carrier service. This week his pilots were hard at work at carrier training at a California base, hoped to be ready for sea duty soon...
About 200 planes were credited to pilots from the Mountbatten, MacArthur and Chennault commands, but carrier-based navymen of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mit-scher's task force, from Halsey's Third Fleet, went on a more destructive ram page. In seven carrier raids from Aug. 30 to Sept. 25 (four of them over the Philip pines) 1,101 Jap planes were destroyed. Significantly, Halsey's fourth raid, an nounced last week, was met by only seven Jap planes in the central Philippines. Left on the ground for Marc Mit-scher's pilots to destroy were...
...unification became inevitable before events rolled everything under one admiral's four-starred flag, there was no doubt who would be the most likely Army candidates. One was General Marshall, whom Navymen like and respect. The other and possibly even more acceptable was General Eisenhower, who had commanded U.S. and Royal Navy fleets in four amphibious attacks (North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France) and wrinkled not an inch of Navy braid...
Last week Stanley was scheduled to be inducted into the Navy. But Navymen, after seeing his demonstration, asked for his deferment and commissioned the youngster to start working on a four-passenger Hillercopter...