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...Navy was afraid it was licked. In its extremity, this week, it prepared a compromise. Jim Forrestal and topnotch Naval Aviator Rear Admiral Arthur Radford will go before the Senate committee with something new-the Navy's own plan for merger, based on the elaborate report made for the Navy some time ago by Investment Banker Ferd Eberstadt. The compromise lay in the possible creation of a Secretary of Air, which Eberstadt had proposed but which Forrestal has hitherto rejected. Main features of the plan...
...hifalutin notions about air power and that in the end the whole unpleasantness would blow over. Tardily the Navy tried to stiffen its defense, called in two of its younger top-drawer air admirals (both aged 49) to quarterback its plays. One was lean, whip-smart Rear Admiral Arthur Radford, father of the Navy's wartime air training program and commander of a carrier task group in the Pacific War. The other was quiet, studious Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, "brain" of Admiral Nimitz' Pacific Fleet staff. In Navy circles they were considered to be progressive thinkers. Assignment...
...doctrine was that reactionary thinking in post-World War II might set in, not only among the battleship admirals (who actually were in retreat) but among the airmen. Men like Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, and even younger aviators like Rear Admiral Arthur Radford might become wedded to the carrier, which had spearheaded the war.* Not to be overlooked by prophets is the fact that after World War I the radicals thought the naval weapon of the future was the submarine. In 1913 amiable, conservative Admiral Richard S. Edwards, who now sits at King...
...bitter anti-regular; to exuberant Reserve Captain Luis de Florez, onetime consulting engineer to several oil companies, who is responsible for most of the Navy's special training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer, now his special assistant...
...break from the Navy's tradition of ancient admirals) would like to lop off the top 10% of the service's greening brass, lower the retirement age, put in a young admiral as boss. Their favorite, No. 175 on the list of admirals: lean, able Arthur W. Radford, 49, who set up naval aviation's excellent wartime training program, later bossed a Pacific carrier group...