Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five Flags. Pleased with the success of the Marshalls operation, Navy-minded Franklin Roosevelt last week nominated Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance as a full admiral, Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner as a vice...
...made Holland Smith the foot soldiers' counterpart to Richmond Kelly Turner, the Central Pacific's admiral who commands the warships that fire on atolls and the transports that deliver the invading soldiers and marines...
Family of Six. In Richmond, Va., State Selective Service authorities frowned on a showman's dependency claim. It included his wife, two children, three chimpanzees...
Said Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, commander of the expeditionary force: enemy resistance was much less than had been expected. For the Japs it was the darkest week of the war. "We must all keep ourselves cool," said Diet Member Ichiro Hirose...
Mahan to Pearl Harbor. Early in 1942, when it became evident to the U.S. Navy that it was going to have to fight an island-to-island war in the Pacific (TIME, Jan. 31), Richmond Kelly Turner was picked to go to the Solomons and boss amphibious operations. He was chosen, among other reasons, because of his versatility...