Arthur William Radford (February 27, 1896 – August 17, 1973) was an U.S. Navy Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Command and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... The United States Pacific Command operates from suburban Honolulu in south central Oahu at the Nimitz-MacArthur Pacific Command Center. ... The Joint Chiefs of Staff is a panel comprising the highest-ranking members of each major branch of the armed services in any particular country. ...

Radford and President Truman, 1950

Arthur Radford was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1896. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1916, Radford served on board the USS South Carolina. Download high resolution version (594x746, 48 KB)Arthur W. Radford & Harry Truman Public domain from [1] Photo # 80-G-424244 Adm. ... Download high resolution version (594x746, 48 KB)Arthur W. Radford & Harry Truman Public domain from [1] Photo # 80-G-424244 Adm. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Teamwork: Fourth Class Midshipmen lock arms and use ropes made from uniform items as they brace themselves climbing the Herndon Monument The United States Naval Academy (USNA) is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and is located in Annapolis, Maryland. ... Five ships of the United States Navy have been named USS South Carolina in honor of the eighth state. ...

A career naval officer, Radford completed flight training in 1921 after serving in the First World War and was appointed Chief of Aviation Training in 1941, shortly before the Second World War. During WWII, Admiral Radford commanded Carrier Division Eleven in the Pacific during 1943 and Carrier Division Six in 1944. In 1948, Radford was named Vice Chief of Naval Operations and the next year was appointed High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of Pacific Islands. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

In 1953, at the height of the Cold War, Admiral Radford became the third Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He served in that position until 1957, when he retired. During his retirement, Radford still advised Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson from time to time. For the generic term for a high-tension rivalry between countries, see cold war (war). ... Dwight David Ike Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), American soldier and politician, was the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961) and Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army. ... JFK redirects here. ... Lyndon Baines Johnson ( August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician. ...

Admiral Radford died in 1973 at Bethesda Naval Medical Center.

It is widely said that Admiral Radford was one of the greatest of America's modern naval officers. He was immensely powerful politically and probably the most influential Admiral in U.S. history.

In recent years, a controversial book about homosexuality in the U.S. Navy named Admiral Radford as the most prominent gay naval officer. In 1988, a Virginia man who claimed to be Radford's lover in the 1950s detailed their relationship in an article in OUT! magazine. Radford's family has denied the allegations of homosexuality and, other than several former seamen who have made claims, there is no evidence to support that Admiral Radford was gay.

Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893 - April 8, 1981) was one of the main US Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II. Bradley was born to a poor family near Clark, Missouri, the son of a schoolteacher. ... The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the highest ranking military officer of the United States military, and the principal military advisor to the President of the United States. ... Nathan Farragut Twining (1897 - 1982) was a U.S. air force general. ...