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Navy to recall eight ace pilots amid clash over Meade rider
The Navy faces a June loss of eight top flying commanders despite a $2,000,000 recall bill before Congress. A bitter feud between naval chairmen over Brig. Gen. James J. Meade stalls HR 4929, risking the pilots' retention as the service expands its air force.
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House
John H. Towers
Bureau of Aeronautics
Navy
Annapolis
Congressional
Naval Committees
David L Walsh
Massachusetts
Selection Board
Melvin Maas
House Naval Committee
Senate
Walsh
James J. Meade
Marine Corps
Naval Affairs Committee
Naval Committee
Carl Vinson
Georgia
Meade
Naval
Vinson
U. S
Dave Rittenhouse
England
Grumman Aircraft Factory
Harold J. Brow
Langs
U. S. Navy
Alamma
Langley
Secretary of the Navy
Pensacola
Fla
Cyrus Simard
Uss California
San Diego Naval Air Station
B. J. Connell
Pacific
San Francisco
Honolulu
Naval Aircraft Factory
Philadelphia
Admiral Towers
Aeronautics Bureau
Roosevelt
West Coast
George Marshall
Army
Marshall
Harold Stark
Naval Operations
Charles Blakeley
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Blakeley
Yorktown
Coronado
Coronada