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Oakes Ames
Flight Officer Jackie Coogan, back in home-town Hollywood after a tour of combat duty with the Army Air Commandos in India, cashed in on a request by letter for a date: he had fallen for a pin-up picture of eye-filling Starlet Ramsay Ames.
Patently, for an undertaking of such proportions, the Navy would have gathered a fleet bigger than any naval force yet assembled in the Pacific. The man in com mand was the man who, under Admiral Chester Nimitz, bosses the Fifth Fleet, the man who ran off the great amphibious attacks...
It is a role Raymond Ames Spruance began to prepare for as a little boy whom neighbors of the Spruances in Indianapolis remember as "a sweet, lovely, gentle baby and so noncombative." What other little boys thought of such a model is not recorded. As a boy the only apparent...
Raymond Ames Spruance, a taciturn, 57-year-old Hoosier, commands the great fleet which began blasting its way last week into the Marshalls. In the estimate of one of his superiors Spruance is a "coldblooded, fighting fool." It is his carriers, capital ships, cruisers, destroyers which pour the steel into...