Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successor is 57-year-old Rear Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, who was skipper of the Lexington when she was sunk in the world's first carrier battle, in the Coral Sea. Sherman's motto: "Kill the bastards scientifically." McCain's relief is 60-year-old Vice Admiral John Henry Towers, who has been morosely watching the war from an administrative position as Deputy Commander in Chief (for air) of the Pacific Fleet, a job which he is very glad to leave...
Nimitz also published the names of three of McCain's task group commanders: pianoplaying, fight-loving Rear Admiral Gerald F. Bogan; lean, relaxed Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford; and serious, solid Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague, recently graduated from jeep carriers to the big sisters...
Halsey's job was to sit behind a desk in Noumea and direct a campaign while other men fought the battles. Rear Admirals Daniel J. Callaghan and Norman Scott were killed in the crucial series of night actions known as the Battle of Guadalcanal (Nov. 13-15, 1942), which turned the Jap tide from the shores of "Bloody Island." Halsey became a hero and a four-star admiral. He took off the pins with three stars on them, ordered them sent to the widows of Callaghan and Scott. "Tell them," said he, "that it was their husbands' fighting...
...while the great typhoon east of the Philippines on Dec. 18 seemed likely to wreck Halsey's whole fleet. But the Ti came through without losing a man or a plane. Dixie proudly read Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman's "well done" over the loudspeaker, and congratulated his crew for its safety record. About that time a sailor who had dozed off on the struts under the No. 2 elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie...
This time, the twister set a collision course for the task group commanded by Rear Admiral Joseph ("Jocko") Clark, and the Cherokee Admiral got it head on. Proud ships like the Hornet and Bennington (27,000-ton carriers) had as much as 25 feet of their steel-braced flight decks peeled back by the waves; parked planes were picked up and tossed aside in a jumble of wreckage; exposed gun mounts, built out from the ships' sides, were crushed...