War: Home Comes the Sailor

The only remaining member of the original five-man delegation that began the truce conferences last July is Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, the doughty commander of U.S. naval forces in the Far East and chief of the allied truce team at Panmunjom. The other four have long since been transferred elsewhere. Last week the Navy announced that, sometime next summer, whether there is a truce or not, the admiral will come home to be superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

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