Word: radford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ADMIRAL ARTHUR WILLIAM RADFORD, 57, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet...
Family & Early Years: Born in Chicago, the son of a civil engineer, grew up in Grinnell, Iowa. He got into the Navy by accident when he wrote his Congressman asking for a West Point appointment. The Congressman had no West Point vacancies at the time, gave Radford a chance to go to Annapolis instead. As a midshipman, "Raddie" was a better-than-average student, graduated at 20 (class of '16), and was described in the Academy yearbook, Lucky Bag, as a "pink-cheeked Apollo...
Career: After four years at sea in both the Atlantic and Pacific, Lieut. Radford went to Pensacola, Fla., took up flying, did a turn later as an instructor, and in time became one of the most outspoken partisans of the Navy's air arm against the battleship admirals then in power...
...operations, later won two Distinguished Service Medals as commander of fast carrier task groups in the Pacific under Admirals "Bull" Halsey and Raymond Spruance. In 1949, on duty as commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, he led the famed "revolt of the admirals." At the congressional hearings, Radford blasted the Defense Department for sapping the Navy's offensive strength, called the 6-36 a "billion-dollar blunder." At one point, the Army chief of staff, General Dwight Eisenhower, became so angry at Radford that he refused to attend a J.C.S. meeting because Radford was present...
...week's end Admiral Arthur W. Radford, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, arrived in Hanoi. Said Radford, after a conference with French General Raoul Salan: "The situation is serious. The Viet Minh have introduced new complications in Laos, but the Viet Minh will be defeated. They must...