Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite some officers' worst fears, the new CNO said no heads would roll. Naval Aviator Sherman asked Vice Admiral John Dale Price, Denfeld's vice chief of operations and an airman, to stay on at his job until spring. After that, Rear Admiral Lynde Dupuy McCormick, a submariner, now boss of the 12th Naval District, will become vice chief. The Navy's two top jobs are usually split between a seagoing admiral and an airman. Sherman abolished Operation 23, which had been disseminating anonymous pro-Navy propaganda during the months of political feuding, but took no punitive...
...also made it plain that he had not become CNO to preside over the liquidation of the Navy. As the first up-from-the-cockpit air admiral ever to achieve the top job of the service, he was for keeping naval aviation strong, and said so. None of this meant that he would have any easy time in restoring harmony. But it made Navy hotheads reconsider: Sherman, an officer of sharp intellect and steely determination, would probably be able to argue the Navy's case, within the limits of unification, better than anyone in the service...
...Said one admiral, after the die was cast: "He still wears a blue suit. You can't wear one of these blue suits ten years, and not believe in the outfit...
Seaman Williams had volunteered for submarine duty. In 1944 he made one patrol out of Oahu in the U.S.S. Sargo, then was beached as "temperamentally unqualified." Said he of sub duty: "I just couldn't learn the machinery...
...wandered around idly, fell into chow lines for his meals, slept in one barracks after another. "One day I saw some men throwing a baseball around," he said, "so I joined them because I always liked to play ball. After a while, I was on the baseball team...