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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...
...charges against these 15 fell into five major divisions. They were that: 1) in the Red Army's rear, they organized and armed detachments of the under ground army called Armja Krajowa, or Home Army, and known by the initials...
...that NIE and AK carried out acts of terror, sabotage, espionage and anti-Soviet propaganda in the Red Army's rear, killing 277 Red Army officers and men in the last five months...
...Wreckers. Little known to the U.S. public, but greatly feared by Jap shipmasters, are the fleet air wings, which the Navy calls "Fairwings" for short. Fairwing 1 and Fairwing 18 have been based in the Ryukyu Islands since early April. Fairwing 1, under veteran seaplaner Rear Admiral John Dale Price, has sunk or damaged more than 200,000 tons of shipping in Korean waters. Fairwing 18, skippered by Rear Admiral Marshall Raymond Greer (onetime shipmate of Price in the old battleship North Dakota), has operated farther east, where the hunting was not so good, but sometimes it has flown over...
Some 20,000 Japanese retreating up the end of northern Luzon in the Philippines were suddenly stabbed in the belly, tactically speaking, then kicked in the rear...