Word: navymen
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...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...
...stormed ashore at Empress Augusta Bay. Near the end of the job a Jap task force turned up. Burke, who had made a 31-knot run to refuel, was back on the job. The Little Beavers led their task force in sinking a cruiser and four destroyers that day. Navymen had never seen anything like the fury and deadly precision of the Little Beavers' attack...
More important, to many Navymen's thinking (including CINCPAC Admiral Chester Nimitz), is the type of ships the subs specialize in sinking: Japan's hard-pressed tankers. It may have been U.S. submarines, not U.S. battleships or carriers, that forced the Japs to pull a big segment of their fleet out of Truk-because a shortage of tankers may have prevented adequate deliveries...
Back to his post in Pearl Harbor went Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the mightiest fleet and amphibious force in world history. For more than a week he had been in Washington, planning, conferring. Before he left, Navymen whispered, some of the U.S.'s weightiest war decisions were made. The war against Japan depended no longer on European developments...
...480th were glad to get home. They had done much of the pioneering; they would not have to go back to sea. While they and many another outfit were at work, the U.S. Navy had asserted one of its favorite doctrines: that only Navymen should patrol the seas. In planes taken over from the Army, new Navy crews are now at work against German subs. The Army, which was on the job when the going was hottest, will hunt them no more...