Admiral Arthur W. Radford
Arthur William Radford was born in Chicago on February 27, 1896. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1916, his first duty tour was on board the battleship USS South Carolina during WWI. He went on to serve as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Command and later as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Admiral Radford retired from Naval service August 1, 1957. He died on August 17, 1973 of cancer at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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