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Blue Jacket Admiral -- The Naval Career of Chick Hayward.

By Mattingly, Joseph G., Jr.
Publication: Defense Transportation Journal
Date: Friday, June 1 2001

Blue Jacket Admiral -- The Naval Career of Chick Hayward, published by Naval Institute Press, 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, MD 21402, by John T. Hayward and C. W. Borklund, 2000.

"This autobiography records the progress and career of a particularly unique mind." The would-be Admiral was

a high school drop out who enlisted in the Navy by claiming to be seventeen, the legal age. This history is an intriguing story about a high school drop out who became a Naval Academy graduate, nuclear physicist, naval aviator and was one of the Navy's first jet pilots. The autobiography captures the spirit as well as the facts of Hayward's history-making career, focusing on his involvement in events that had a major impact on politics, military policies and plans. It is highly personalized and sometimes opinionated story about matters still under discussion today.

It is recommended reading for all those persons interested in the naval history and the military history during the period prior to World War II and during World War II, Korean War, and Cuban Missile Crises.

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