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Article: Admiral Commanded NATO Forces, Led Naval Air Operation in Vietnam [Correction 9/1/09]
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- August 21, 2009
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Ralph W. Cousins, 94, a retired Navy admiral who directed naval
air operations during the Vietnam War and who later became the
Navy's second-highest-ranking officer and the top commander of NATO
forces, died Aug. 5 at a hospital in Newport News, Va., of
complications from a fall.
Adm. Cousins, a highly decorated Navy aviator who survived the
sinking of an aircraft carrier during World War II, had a central
role in planning the U.S. naval air campaign against North Vietnam.
From 1967 to 1969, during some of the fiercest fighting of the
war, Adm. Cousins was commander of the attack carrier strike force
and was responsible for all naval aviation operations carried out
from aircraft carriers ...