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...master of ceremonies was Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. In the row of admirals' heads in the paneled Navy Department board room, his cotton top stood out like a white flag. While Secretary Forrestal smiled approval, 60-year-old Admiral Nimitz formally presented the new cast of characters now taking over from 67-year-old Admiral King's war-weary team. As things go in the Navy, the accent was decidedly on youth: the new high command averaged five and a half years younger...
...Nimitz is Admiral DeWitt C. ("Duke") Ramsey, 57, longtime naval aviator who is Vice Chief of Naval Operations. Under him are six deputy chiefs, all vice admirals: Forrest P. ("Fuzz") Sherman, 49 (operations); Richard L. ("Close-In") Conolly, 53 (administration); W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, 55 (special weapons); Louis E. Denfeld, 54 (personnel); Arthur W. Radford, 49 (air); William S. Farber, 60 (logistics), the only holdover...
More important than the admirals' birth dates was their break from battleship thinking. Of ten top-rankers who will be closest to Submariner Nimitz, four are high-octane airmen (King had only one); three are submariners; two are surfacemen but amphibious specialists. Only holdover, Admiral Farber is a battleship man. Among Ernie King's top nine advisers were six "turtlebacks...
...Although Nimitz drew no attention to this fact, it was no coincidence that the heavy-armor men had gone over the side. As one of the young Turks put it: "They couldn't kick 'em too hard as they let 'em drop. That hurts enough...
Soldiers & the Bomb. Except for one thing, 1945 would have been the year of the Allied military men, of Zhukov or Montgomery, of Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower or Nimitz, or-as in many respects it was-of G.I. Joe, an unwilling hero, not knowing what he was fighting for but fighting superbly well...