Some of the Navy's admirals got a shaking around last week; a shower of stars fell among others.
Two John Henrys. Advocates of a wider use of naval air power cheered when the Navy boosted its No. 1 aviator into the job of deputy commander in the Pacific—in the nation's current strategy the No. 2 operations job. The airman: quiet, serious, 59-year-old Vice Admiral John Henry Towers.
Jack Towers, who began his flying career in 1911 and has stuck with aviation ever since, has never been a crier-out against the Navy's slowness in...
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