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...Rear Admiral W. F. Boone, Superintendent of the Navel Academy, finally declared he was acting on "his own interpretation of existing directives," and the head of West Point issued a similar statement. The situation was particularly touchy since West Point is annually the location of the national collegiate debate tournament...
...classic The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860-the beauties and perils of the Atlantic coast. For his Pulitzer Prizewinning Admiral of the Ocean Sea he sailed 10,000 miles retracing the course of Columbus, and during World War II (he retired from the Navy as a rear admiral) he collected seven battle stars while also collecting first-hand material for his monumental history of naval operations...
Named Chief of Naval Operations last week: Rear Admiral Arleigk Albert ("31-Knot"} Burke...
...Policy, head of the controversial Operation 23, which prepared the Navy case against the B-36 and carried on a devious back-door campaign with newspapermen and politicians against the Administration policy of priority for air power. In 1949, when Burke's name came up for promotion to rear admiral, President Truman punitively crossed it off the list, later restored it when Admiral Forrest Sherman and press took up the issue...
...Korean War: In 1951 Rear Admiral Burke commanded Cruiser Division Five in Korean waters. One officer remembers: "The old man really ran the show. He was his own chief of staff, his own intelligence officer, his own operations officer. He even was his own talker on the bridge. If a TBS (talk between ships) message came when he was on the bridge, you endangered your life if you got between him and the phone...