Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...command the Pacific Fleet Air Force, with the rank of vice admiral, Rear Admiral John Henry Towers, Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics...
...past wars has shown such a picture of continuous movement and maneuver on both sides," said the army newspaper Red Star. "The enemy is forever regrouping for flank attacks or attempts at encirclement while our forces are also continuously maneuvering and counterattacking the enemy's flanks and rear...
Nowhere were there signs such as portend an army's breakup, no sudden quickening of the enemy advance, no telling breakthroughs, no confusion and disintegration in rear communications. On the contrary, the German advance was slower, if anything, inch by inch into Stalingrad. Russian communications were still in order, bringing fresh troops, guns and planes to the front...
...great balls of flame being volleyed back & forth over the blue court of the ocean turned the scene into "a tennis match in hell." Thrown back when they tried to regain a foothold on Guadalcanal Island, the Japanese were trapped by a counterattacking flanking force, the sea at their rear and U.S. forces covering the Tenaru river (see cut, p. 34). When U.S. tanks attacked, there was nothing for the Japs to do but surrender (which few did) or be crushed and blown to bits...
When Navy's No. 1 airman, Rear Admiral John H. Towers, head of BuAer (Bureau of Aeronautics), was last week made a vice admiral it was a promotion for Admiral Towers but a demotion for the Navy's air arm. For Towers was sent out to command all Navy flyers in the Pacific and his key job in the Washington high command was given to a battleship admiral...