Word: shermans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Enemy. The Russian navy, Sherman pointed out, is a "very powerful navy"-for Russia's special purposes. And it is growing. Fortnight ago the Russians announced the creation of a separate navy ministry under chunky Admiral Ivan S. Yumashev. His Soviet navy already has 270 submarines, many of the latest design. It is reportedly building its submarine force up to 1,000, and constructing three modern battleships, probably to be used as guided-missile ships...
Devising means to meet the deadly menace of the U.S.S.R.'s submarines was a key task for the U.S. Navy, but it was only part of its function. The Navy's job, Sherman argued, was also to keep the fighting on the far side of the ocean, to help grab advance air bases, and to deliver the U.S.'s fighting strength when it was needed. For all these, the big carrier is still the Navy's most powerful basic weapon; it can roam anywhere, strike far and with surprise. The J.C.S. was willing to listen...
From the J.C.S. Sherman won permission to put an extra cruiser into operation, then wangled another four destroyers. He got approval for as many Marine battalion landing teams as he could squeeze into his budget (probably eight instead of the scheduled six). Finally by squeezing his budget some more, he got an extra carrier. Next he hoped to get 32 more destroyers, and 400 more planes a year. The Navy, which in the heat of change of command had whispered that Sherman was ambitious, cold and ruthless, was amazed and delighted. One officer, who had greeted Sherman's advent...
Intent Man. At 53, Forrest Sherman is the youngest man (and first career airman) to be Chief of Naval Operations. A stocky man (5 ft. 9 in., 168 Ibs.) with a rolling, pigeon-toed gait, he has none of the traditional sea dog's look of shaggy-browed sternness. His smile is quick, friendly but curiously remote. His eyes appraise impersonally without open -approval or rancor, like the eyes of an airman inspecting an engine. Always, he keeps an air of detachment...
...Right from the beginning," said his Annapolis roommate, Merton ("Sticks") Wade, "he knew precisely what he wanted. He wanted to get to the top." And right from the beginning, as a boy, Forrest Sherman had wanted to go to sea. Before he could read, he was fascinated by woodcuts of sailing ships in an old history book. The high-school class prophet predicted confidently that he would be an admiral. His singleminded intentness was the kind that wins admiration, but seldom popularity. "You can't get good marks if you're popular," he once told his sister...