World War II: March 1999 From the Editor

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Towers died on April 30, 1955, having devoted more than four decades of service to the Navy. Reynolds observes that even eminent historian Samuel Eliot Morison “completely failed to give voice to his accomplishments. The fact is that Towers’ career was a major success story, marred only by his having been kept from combat command during World War II and from the top post of CNO afterward.”

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As others have done before, Towers sacrificed career advancement in the name of principle. It was the right thing to do.

Michael E. Haskew, Editor,World War II

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