THE plaque on his desk in the Pentagon’s E-Ring reads FAST CHARGER. This was the radio call of Admiral George W. Anderson Jr. when he was commander of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean.

Admiral George Anderson "A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense, and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest.

Retired Adm. George W. Anderson, who as chief of naval operations was in charge of the U.S. blockade of Cuba during the Soviet missile crisis in 1962, died Friday in McLean, Va. Adm. Anderson, who ...