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...James V. Forrestal, Navy Under Secretary, charged that the overriding priority which Nelson handed Jeffers to let him bull through 55% of the synthetic rubber program had cost the Navy 100 escort vessels. It had further jammed the production of valves and other parts essential to the Navy as well as to 100-octane and Navy programs. Jeffers was not to blame; Nelson never should have granted the priority in the first place...
...pattern astern of the leader. In perfect coordination, this array of underwater raiders lay in wait for convoys previously spotted by scouts or long-range air reconnaissance. By night, submerged, they moved under the convoy. When they came up, a few of them would draw the convoy's escort vessels off. The rest could then pick off their targets at leisure, firing by direct control from their conning towers...
Again, Senator Truman. Hardly had Patterson and Ickes finished mortar-firing on Jeffers when the Navy let go a torpedo, too. The condensers, valves and other instruments which Bill Jeffers had snatched from the high-octane program the Navy must also have for its escort program. The Navy also wanted Jeffers stripped of his priority...
...Spitfires went for the escort and the Kittyhawks went for the giants. The pilot who led the attack said: "Three starboard engines and the fuselage caught fire when I let go at the first plane and it hit the water with a sheet of flame belching from it." As the fragile transports went into the sea, said one pilot, "a mass of propellers filled...
Production of octane gas, escort vessels and aircraft might suffer (there is no solid proof yet that it has), but the Bull closed his eyes to others' problems, kept charging ahead. Result: the rubber program is shaping up excellently. Then, wholly uninfected by Washington, he announced that, barring production mishaps, he would resign on July 1 and go back to his job as president of Union Pacific. This was cheering news; apparently one man could surmount the lure of the spotlight...