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...Pensacola...
...Admiral John Sidney McCain, 58, is a good officer. But like many other so-called air admirals, he got an airman's rating late, is not an airman by profession, but a battleship admiral with pay-and-a-half and a flying suit.* Since his air training at Pensacola m 1936, at the age of 52, Battleshipman McCain has had little to do with air developments...
...Pensacola admiral is Admiral Towers. He has been flying since Glenn Curtiss taught him how in 1911. It was he who commanded the famous NCs when the NC4 became the first (1919) plane to cross the Atlantic. When appointed chief of BuAer he had been 28 years an airman...
...Others in the same category: COMINCH Ernest Joseph King, who became a Pensacola admiral at 49. He once commanded the Lexington, but his real love is submarines. Vice Admiral Frederick Joseph Home, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, who became a naval air observer at 46. He once commanded the carrier Saratoga, later the Fleet's aircraft battle force. Rear Admiral Arthur Byron Cook, onetime BuAer chief, now in charge of aircraft operating with the Atlantic Fleet, who learned to fly at 54 Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., the Navy's senior admiral at sea, COMCARPAC (Commander...
...blues singers of Arkansas, Georgia, etc. would be forced to constitute the Balkan Union of N.A. This state should not be allowed to control the Mississippi delta, nor have access to the Atlantic seaboard. For their unimportant trade, Pensacola, to be renamed Salonika, will do as their only port...