Oral history reminiscences.

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Oral history reminiscences.

Including boyhood, education at USNA, early cruises, flight training, Pensacola; flight instructor; Flight Training Officer, Naval Air Operational Command during WWII, 1942-1944; Deputy Asst. Chief of Staff, SHAPE, Paris, 1957-1960; CO, Sixth Fleet, 1961-1963; CNO, 1963-1967. Topics of national and international scope, as well as personal philosophy is contained therein.

1 v., 440 p.

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