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Admiral King also got a Chief of Staff (for the fleet). Rear Admiral Russell Willson, to take more work off his hands. Navymen knew that "Rey" King did not give a Bosun's curse for old Navy tradition. If any ranker in the Navy could make them pop, things would now pop. And COMINCH King (who changed the abbreviation from CINCUS) finally had the popper all to himself...
Punch & Reel. The enemy had struck its first blow. Only ten months ago Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel was jumped over 46 flag officers to take the senior job afloat in the U.S. Navy. It was a strange commentary on the memories of civilians and Navymen alike that after Port Arthur* this blow should have come as a surprise. Long before Hitler, the Japanese Navy had shown what the swift thrust, before declaration of war, could...
...than any of the 41-knot, steel-hulled speedsters the Navy is getting, and nimble-footed as a seagoing cat. "Skipper" Burgess had patented the design in 1937, had tested it, as well as he could without a full-scale model, from hell to breakfast. What worried Navymen was the material that Burgess had to use to get his speed-and-footing effect: aluminum. The Navy could not have had a seemingly good design thrown at it at a worse time, when aluminum supply (and magnesium, needed for alloy) is as strictured as the flow from a 1919 garden hose...
...Beyond Wake, the bridge passes through the Japanese mandated islands. Since the early '30s Japan has worked hard building up air bases in this cluster of hundreds of islands and her other pin points of land in the Pacific. On Yap, on Palau, on more other islands than Navymen like to think about, she has stored fuel, erected air and submarine bases, may even have established bases for light surface craft...
...Navymen blinked when Admiral Land retired from the Navy (after 35 years' service) when he was only 58. For this was the same Jerry Land who won the athletic sword at Annapolis in 1900 (for football, baseball, crew, track, minor sports) while he was finishing sixth in his class. It was the same Jerry Land who was head of the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair, who could fly his own airplane, who was a field official at two or three big-league football games each season (as he still is), the little man with the quarterdeck...