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21. Apr. 2020 · Trimble’s work is a definitive success and another addition to his growing list of publications on the history (and future) of naval aviation. William Trimble. Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2019. $18. Reviewed by NHF Director of Membership Programs, ENS Sean Bland, USNR.
McCain, John S. Jr., Adm., USN (Ret.) (1911–1981) This interview was intended as the first in a series that would cover chronologically Admiral McCain’s entire life and naval career. Unfortunately, the admiral did no further interviews after this one. It is devoted largely to the early years of his naval service, starting with his time at ...
27. Aug. 2018 · His grandfather, John S. McCain, Sr., also an admiral, would come to command the Navy’s Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific during World War II. “They were my first heroes, and earning ...
John Sidney McCain sr. (Carroll County, 9 augustus 1884 - Coronado California, 6 september 1945) was een viersterren admiraal en een telg uit een familie van militairen. Hij was de neef van generaal Henry Pinckney McCain , de broer van generaal William Alexander McCain , de vader van admiraal John S. McCain jr. en de grootvader van voormalig kapitein en Amerikaans presidentskandidaat John McCain .
John Sidney “Slew” McCain Sr. was a U.S. Navy admiral. He held several command assignments during the Pacific campaign of World War II. McCain was a pioneer of aircraft carrier operations who in 1942 commanded all land-based air operations in support of the Guadalcanal campaign, and who ultimately in 1944-1945 aggressively led the Fast Carrier […]
His grandfather, John S. McCain Sr., called “Sid” or “Slew,” was the first of the family to attend the United States Naval Academy, and the first to become a naval aviator, earning his wings at the age of fifty. As a passed midshipman, he served in the Philippines on a gunboat skippered by Chester Nimitz, and sailed home to America on the flagship of Teddy Roosevelt’s “Great White ...
USS JOHN S. McCain is an ARLEIGH BURKE - class guided missile destroyer and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name However, DDG 56 is the first ship to honor three members of the McCain family: John S. McCain, Sr.; John S. McCain, Jr. and John S. McCain III. General Characteristics: Keel Laid: September 3, 1991.
