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King, Ernest Joseph (1878–1956)| US admiral. Commander-in-chief of the US Fleet December 1941, in March 1942 he also became chief of naval operations and was later a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Anglo-US Combined Chiefs of Staff. Promoted to fleet admiral 1944, he organized and directed the naval forces in the Pacific; he was always reluctant to divert any resources to any other theatre and his efforts to obtain the most supplies for his Pacific Forces often caused problems in the European theatre. |
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