Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Admiral Radford was back last week in his Pearl Harbor headquarters-where a huge wall map locates every merchantman and warship in the Pacific-from a conference with MacArthur in Tokyo and a flying visit to the Korean front with Brigadier General Thomas J. Cushman, commander of the Fleet Marine Force. Radford was well pleased. He has no command responsibility for the fighting ships off Asia's coast. Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, who commands the Seventh Fleet, takes his orders from Vice Admiral Charles Joy, who is MacArthur's Far East naval commander, and MacArthur takes his from...
...Radford had a variety of sea and shore duty, doing what he could all the while to improve the technique of carrier flying. In the autumn of 1941 he was called back from a base command at Trinidad to take charge of the Navy's air training program, a job which got him a rear admiral's two stars. Radford took over the training program a week before Pearl Harbor. His problem was to combine mass production with high quality...
After the separate Air Force was created and the three services merged in a Department of Defense, Radford remained one of the diehards. In integration he saw dire possibilities of damage to the Navy, its air arms and to the Marine Corps. He was sent out of Washington to command a peacetime task fleet, brought back again as Vice Chief of Naval Operations (as a vice admiral), sent out again in the spring of 1949, as a full admiral, to be CINCPAC...
...semifinals this week, the championship had narrowed down to two veterans and two relative newcomers. The veterans stayed in command. Playing in the same cool & collected fashion that has won her the U.S. title two years in a row, Margaret Osborne du Pont, 32, beat pretty, crop-haired Nancy Chaffee, 21, of Ventura, Calif. Florida's Doris Hart, 25, put out California's Beverly Baker...
...awkward young general perplexed by the minutiae of paper work, tactical details and camp routine into a fearless and almost terrible leader who inspired his men, to heroic feats." Unfortunately for the Southern cause, Confederate President Jefferson Davis mistook bravery for generalship, put the crippled Hood in command of the Army of Tennessee in the midst of the Atlanta campaign...