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No U.S. Navy planes had prouder records in World War II than those made by Grumman Aircraft-the Wildcat and Hellcat fighters and the Avenger torpedo bomber. After the Battle of Savo Island, James Forrestal, then Under Secretary of the Navy, declared flatly: "Grumman saved Guadalcanal." In the Battle of...
"Absolutely Relentless." After killing off SPA, Truman named Symington Assistant Secretary of War for Air. When the Air Force split off from the Army in the defense reorganization of 1947, Symington became the first Air Force Secretary. Like all strong Air Force partisans, he had fought fiercely for a strong...
After Forrestal's death, Symington fought a continuing battle with his successor, Louis Johnson, to keep up Air Force group strength against the pressures of shrinking, pre-Korea defense budgets. Symington kept insisting that the U.S. needed 70 air groups for minimum safety, but he saw the Air Force...
Of all the civilians who ever came to work in the five-ring circus of the Pentagon, none was more roundly disliked as a matter of principle than handsome, brainy Wilfred James McNeil. The reason was understandable enough: McNeil, hand-picked in 1947 by Defense Secretary James Forrestal to be...
Into the No. 2 job in the nation's No. 1, public business stepped an alumnus of the solidly schooled fraternity of bankers and lawyers that produced such topflight governmental figures as Dulles, McCloy and Dillon, Forrestal and Lovett. To succeed the late Donald Quarles as Deputy Secretary of...