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...Admiral Radford was back last week in his Pearl Harbor headquarters-where a huge wall map locates every merchantman and warship in the Pacific-from a conference with MacArthur in Tokyo and a flying visit to the Korean front with Brigadier General Thomas J. Cushman, commander of the Fleet Marine Force. Radford was well pleased. He has no command responsibility for the fighting ships off Asia's coast. Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, who commands the Seventh Fleet, takes his orders from Vice Admiral Charles Joy, who is MacArthur's Far East naval commander, and MacArthur takes his from...
...Radford's most important present responsibilities is to keep the supply lines from the U.S. to the Far East open and smoothly flowing. By last week the Navy had put down more than a million tons of arms and supplies in Korea...
Frontier Question. In Radford's command is the Navy's far-flung string of Pacific bases, from Pearl Harbor to the projected new base at Camranh Bay in Indo-China. Pearl and Guam are the main bases for repair and service of warships, as well as for staging land-based air. Okinawa, a major base for the Air Force's B-29s, is not now being used by the Navy but is on standby status. So is Kwajalein. Two bases in Japan (Yokosuka and Sasebo) are capable of handling large naval forces, and a twin base...
...Radford admires Douglas MacArthur and sees eye-to-eye with him on most points of Pacific strategy, including the question of America's Pacific frontier. In their view, the frontier is a barrier from the foggy, smoking Aleutians on the north to the Philippines. Part of this line is Formosa (see BACKGROUND FOR WAR), the key to the Western Pacific. MacArthur, Radford and most Navy men believe that Formosa can and must be denied to the enemy, and therefore cheered President Truman's order to defend it. If Formosa is not held, the U.S. positions in Japan...
...Admiral Radford lines up with those who believe that Moscow's men will not start a general war so long as they augment their domain by proxy wars. Said he last week: "All evidence points to the unpleasant fact that the U.S. must maintain a strong national defense organization for an indefinite period. This force must contain mobile elements that can be quickly dispatched to future Koreas. We can't hope to compete with the Communists on a manpower basis, but we can build up an organization that can apply superior power at the right time and place...