Word: navymen
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...Navy was far from appeased. Boiling mad, Navymen lost no time in making their feelings known. In Dallas, Rear Admiral A. S. Merrill, commandant of the Eighth Naval District, came up swinging with a below-the-belt punch. Cried he: "It is my belief that when the next war comes we will need the finest Army and Air Forces in the world, because with a greatly weakened Navy, submerged under Army control, the fighting will be on our own shores...
Angrier than ever, the Navymen obediently kept mum. Merger could wait until tempers cooled...
...navies obsolete? Can a single atomic bomb attack destroy a billion-dollar surface fleet? Chronically optimistic airmen (who will drop the bombs) think so. Brassbound Navymen hold that atomic explosives are just another weapon: they may modify but they will not wipe out their seagoing fortresses and flying fields. This week, top Army & Navy ordnance men and atomic bombers were down to the i-dotting stage on plans to settle the question...
With the hurly-burly and posturing of the public hearings over, legislators and brass hats got down to work together last week on a plan for the merger of the Army and Navy. After so many months of pull & haul, it was a relief even to Navymen, who still opposed the merger...
...Navymen were prepared to agree that it was for "the good of the service." Many argued that no amount of zigzagging would have saved the Indianapolis. Said a U.S. submarine commander: "The Jap had a dream dropped in his lap. It's just sheer bad luck for McVay...