Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...small cabin off the flag bridge of an Essex-class carrier, known in the fleet as "the Showboat," Admiral Edward Coyle Ewen sat sipping orangeade, explaining the targets for the next day. Task Force 77 was barreling along Korea's west coast, intent on blasting strategic targets at Pyongyang, Seoul and Inchon. While Ewen was talking, fuel and ordnance men readied the Showboat's planes...
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...
...said that Radford wears "three hats," which means that he has three commands. As CINCPAC, he commands the Pacific Fleet. As CINCPOA (Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Area), he is theater commander of an area which reaches from the North to the South Pole, from the continental shores of the Americas to the Bay of Bengal. Radford is also High Commissioner for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which means that he must look after the welfare of inhabitants of islands put in U.S. trust by the United Nations. This is the least important of the admiral...
...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...
...summarily sacked. In addition to the dust-up over Strachey and the Korean headline, Gunn last week told fellow journalists that he and Beaverbrook had had an even more important disagreement: they had quarreled over fundamental policy for the Standard. He went into no details, but the word on Fleet Street was that the Beaver wanted to change the paper's style, tone down its strident voice and make it something like the conservative Daily Telegraph. At week's end the Beaver was still looking for a man to fill Gunn...