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Isle of the Dead (Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer; TIME, Sept...
Isle of the Dead (Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer; TIME, Sept...
...hazard in that quarter-deck doctrine was that reactionary thinking in post-World War II might set in, not only among the battleship admirals (who actually were in retreat) but among the airmen. Men like Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, and even younger aviators like Rear Admiral Arthur Radford might become wedded to the carrier, which had spearheaded the war.* Not to be overlooked by prophets is the fact that after World War I the radicals thought the naval weapon of the future was the submarine. In 1913 amiable, conservative Admiral Richard S. Edwards...
...Forward-looking Marc Mitscher reassured his followers, however, by declaring that, while the carrier was now the backbone of the fleet, "new weapons may eliminate surface craft...
Isle of the Dead (Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer; TIME, Sept...