Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They know that the Navy's role has changed. Last week Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford, a veteran carrier admiral, told correspondents on his Pacific flagship just that. Carriers are no longer needed, he said, to clear the way for amphibious thrusts. He added: "Our job now is to keep our own lines of sea communication open and to assure the strict blockade of Japan...
...about two seconds no hand showed, nobody spoke. Then a man in the rear of the room spoke up. He said: "No, no, we have had enough of the Nazis. And all the stories you tell now of having been forced into the party are so much bunk. I never belonged to it. Many others did not. Take Herr Hanzel-gruber, for example. He never joined and he would not make a bad mayor. As long as I have anything to do with this village, no Nazi will ever belong to the administration if I can help it." There were...
Attacker's Defense. Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. took time out to defend his conduct of the campaign against rear-area criticism (TIME, June 18). He had studied the possibility of an amphibious "end run" around the Japanese lines, to the southern beaches. The idea had been rejected because the reefs and beaches would have made it impossible to supply a large enough force. Such a landing "could have turned into another Anzio beachhead, or worse," declared Buckner. At his advance headquarters on Guam, Fleet Admiral Nimitz endorsed Buckner's decisions without qualification...
...civilians have ever heard of Rear Admiral Harold Gardiner Bowen, but the U.S. Navy knows him very well indeed. Stocky and bald, the fiery Admiral possesses a quality much rarer than courage in battle: an absolute fearlessness of superior rank when one of his pet projects is involved. His scrappy perseverance is a departmental legend. Over strong brass-hat opposition, he helped browbeat the Navy into adopting new high-pressure, high-temperature steam turbines, which have proved invaluable in World War II's ships (TIME, July 12, 1943). He has been officially cited as the spark plug behind...
Admiring Author Pinchon believes that but for Sickles, Chancellorsville would have been not a defeat, but a rout. He quotes Stines's History of the Army of the Potomac: "If Sickles had not brought up his command in time to strike Jackson's right and rear, there is no telling where [the] disaster might have ended. . . . His subsequent night attack against Jackson was one of the most brilliant actions in military history." But General Sickles' major achievement was his stand against Longstreet at Gettysburg. It also cost Sickles his right leg from the thigh down. His military...