Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King was Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (CINCUS) and Chief of Naval Operations (COMINCH-CNO) during World War II.
Hoover and Hale were incompatible and frequently disagreed on doctrine and tactics. Hoover urged the Air Force to fly lower for improved accuracy; Hale refused because his pilots were skittish about antiaircraft fire and wanted to fly ...
Interweaving the stories of these six men with dramatic scenes from famous battlefields such as Antietam and Chattanooga, Buell creates a sweeping panorama of the Civil War.
In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time.
Master of Sea Power
Cartography and literature, text and map, word and image were inextricably linked in this expanding American maritime world.17 Among the most important of this genre is David Porter's Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean, ...
On 25 December, General Marshall advanced an idea that was deemed controversial to Prime Minister Churchill and others on the British Chiefs of Staff. As Admiral King recalled: “... Marshall brought up the subject of command, ...
Pacific strategy had been kept fluid , mainly because of the sharp differences between General Douglas MacArthur and ... Vice Admiral Soc McMorris , in charge of the greeting MICE Joseph J. “ Jocko " Clark Forrest P. Sherman Twenty ...
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This book focuses on the religious beliefs and writings of naval historian and theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan.