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Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (ret), hero of the Battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea, and longtime commander of the Fifth Fleet, was nominated by the White House for another Pacific assignment: Ambassador to the Philippines, to replace Envoy Myron M. Cowen...
...squeezed off a few single shots, then flipped the rate-of-fire levers on their rifles and sprayed out a rippling burst of full automatic fire at the target. The riflemen were two of the country's top small-arms experts: Major General Julian S. Hatcher, U.S.A., ret., and retired Marine Major General Merritt A. Edson. They were at Aberdeen to try out the Army's secret, new, lightweight .30-cal. automatic rifle...
When the University of South Carolina got a new president in 1944, alumni protested, facultymen seethed, and a group of students promptly burned him in effigy. It was not that they had anything personal against Rear Admiral Norman Murray Smith, U.S.N. (ret.). It just happened that his brother was one of the most powerful men in the legislature, and so the appointment smacked of politics...
...Columbus, Ga., Rear Admiral (Ret.) Richard E. Byrd, 63, announced that he was just waiting for world tensions to slacken before taking off on another trip to the South Pole. This time, he said, women would be included in his crew, since they had "proved they can take...
Died. Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum (ret.), 72, who as Pershing's Chief of Staff helped chart allied victory in World War I, was in charge of security and blackouts on the East Coast in World War II; of a heart attack; in his office in the Empire State Building, of which he had been head since 1944; in Manhattan...