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...first plane ride, in a yellow twin-engined H16 seaplane, sent him soaring into a pilot's career. In 1930 he became a member of the U.S. Navy's famous Fighting Squadron 1, the High Hat Squadron (skipper of the High Hats: Lieut. Commander Arthur W. Radford). Nine of the High Hats, including Thach and Radford, barnstormed the nation in Curtiss F8C4 Hell-divers, tied wingtip to wingtip with Manila rope. Bound thus, Thach and some of his comrades astonished crowds with loops, snap rolls and high wing overs-and never snapped a rope or a wing. When...
...Middle Eastern nation-at that nation's request-to help it beat out attack or subversion by Communist or other outside powers. In historic testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur Radford. spelled out the U.S. purpose in Mahan-type precision...
...believe we must have simple and direct channels of command," said the Army's General Omar Bradley. "This proposed change will provide in being an organization in peacetime which is prepared to function immediately in case of war." Right behind Bradley came Admiral Arthur Radford, a leader in the Navy's 1945-47 fight against military unification, who began changing his mind about reorganization during his 1953-57 terms as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "I don't know what is coming in the next ten years," said Airman Radford, "but there are going...
Among those present was a new military-civilian team mustered by McElroy last week to serve in effect as management consultants - the Air Force's General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Admiral Arthur Radford and Army General Omar Bradley, Twining's predecessors as J.C.S. chairmen; William C. Foster, Washington industrial ist (Olin Mathieson Corp.) and former Deputy Defense Secretary (1951-53); Charles Allerton Coolidge, Boston lawyer and former Assistant Defense Secretary (1951-52). (Absent member: Nelson A. Rockefeller, part-sponsor of the Rockefeller Report, which recommended an overhauling of Pentagon organization -TIME...
...Secretary Neil McElroy was in no hurry to present to the President a specific reorganization plan. McElroy's big move last week: to call for advice on reorganization from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Nathan Twining, and from ex-J.C.S. Chairmen Admiral Arthur Radford and General Omar Bradley...