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Navy saw American sea
power at first hand during
World War II, serving both
in the Pacific the Iwo Jima,
Okinawa, and Philippine
campaigns and in Europe
the invasion of Southern
France. After the war, he
served as director and
national vice-president of
the Navy League of the
United States, svonsor of
today's Navy Day observance. A native of Germantown, Pa.,
and son of a president of the University of Pennsylvania,
Gates was appointed Under Secretary of the Navy in 1953
and became Secretary last April.
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were there can see it all over again.
Remember the jungle rot of the
Solomons, the smell of the dead, the
flares of the early torpedo attacks.
The Rising Sun and the Swastika,
Rabaul, Tulagi, the bloody beaches
of Tarawa, the Coral Sea, Midway,
the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, the
flag at Iwo, the boys in the water.
"Scratch one flattop." "The slot."
"The turkey shoot." "Send us more
Japs." The "Can do, will do, did"
men of the Seabees.
Those who were there say, "These
things I have lived, these days taught
me love of God."
Remember the confidence and calm
of Nimitz, the thrill of Halsey's "get
moving tonight" dispatches, the care
ful planning of Spruance, the fleet
lit up by Mitscher whom the pilots
loved, the dream of a lifetime when
Oldendorf "crossed the T" at Suri
gao, the names of such fighters as
Vandergrift, Howling Mad Smith,
McCain, Butch O'Hara, Killer Kane,
Erskine, and Cates.
Remember the ships, too. The En
terprise, Lexington, Yorktown,
South Dakota, Salt Lake City, Boise,
O'Bannon, Barb.
It was the superiority of our car
riers which spearheaded the war in
the Pacific, one of the great achieve
ments in the history of modern war
fare. We also had amphibious forces
perfected to a degree hitherto un
imaginable, and an incomparable
submarine force which almost sin
glehandedly strangled the Japanese.
Yet these inanimate things are
nothing without leadership the
leadership of a Marine sergeant di
recting a squad, the gallantry of a
flight leader, the leadership of an
admiral commanding a task force.
As a result of some of our experi
ences in war, we are inclined these
days to think of victory primarily
in terms of quantitative superiority
of men, ships, and planes; in re
sources, money, and munitions. We
should not diminish the amazing
wartime production of armaments;
we are grateful for the genius of
our engineers, scientists, mechanics,
and laborers. Indeed, we know that
military success is increasingly de
pendent on science and engineering.
But let us remember that, above all
else, leadership is the essential in
gredient of victory.
Out of the smoke and death of
Pearl Harbor, the ingenuity and re
sources of America produced the
greatest force on earth, and the
United States rode the airways and
the seaways of the globe in omnipo
tent power. This mighty force was
led by men men trained for years
men who existed for such an emer
gency. It was their reason for being,
the reason for their services to exist.
Throughout the war, their leader
ship employed our seapower so as
to overwhelm the enemy at every
point of contact. They demonstrated
the ability of seapower to use mo
bility, concentration, and economy
of force to a degree approaching the
ultimate in warfare.
Modern weapons are changing, but
the gift of this leadership has been
passed on, and its principles guide
our leaders of today Radford, 31
knot Burke, Pate. These principles
will guide and serve our leaders of
tomorrow as well.
Thus, the men who wore their
country's uniform in World War II
played a vital part not only in his
tory, but in the future. And on this
Navy Day the future of our beloved
United States is full of promise be
cause of the strength and will of all
the free people of the Western World,
an oceanic confederacy cemented to
gether by modern seapower.
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Familu Weekly, October 27, 1057
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