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...Nominations for Man of the Year are now closed. The leaders to date: 1)G.I. Joe; 2)the atomic bomb and the scientists who made it; 3)Franklin Delano Roosevelt; 4) Admiral Nimitz; 5) General Eisenhower; 6)President Truman...
...idea tickled Texans. But they were also unhappily reminded that the Texas Navy (Honorary Commander: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, of Fredericksburg, Texas) has no ships at the moment...
...this crisis, while Navy Secretary Forrestal and Chief of Naval Operations Chester Nimitz prayed to the great Mahan, prophet of the doctrine of sea power, Navymen clutched at straws. To the microphone they led strange allies-Miner John L. Lewis, who rumbled that merger would "make for a greater concentration of military power than we have ever had before . . . I am reluctant. . . ." And Catholic Educator (Catholic University of America) Maurice Sheehy, naval chaplain for five years, who cried: "I . . . regard as an evil thing any movement which challenges radically the conditions of life for half a million...
...correspondent, between Sherrod and the officers and men (chiefly of the U.S. Marine Corps) with whom he shared many of the hazards of war, an exhilarating sense of the grandeur (as well as the misery) of battle. There are striking impressions and biographical sketches of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, and quick, revealing glimpses of dozens of other officers and men. And there are unforgettable, somewhat baffled, but graphic reports of the nature of the Japanese enemy, especially his proneness to suicide...
Headed for the No. 2 position, Vice Chief of Naval Operations under non-flying Fleet Admiral Nimitz, was DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, son of an Army officer, but a naval aviator since 1916 with a well-balanced war record of sea and shore duty, and with a smooth personality which fitted him well for dealings with the civilian arms of government. The boost up the ladder would raise Ramsey from two-star to three-star rank. The man he replaced, armorplated Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards, would go to the quiet Western Sea Frontier (headquarters in San Francisco...