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The Navy, suddenly discovering that this feeling was typical, began a campaign to make amends for its bungled selling job. All Hands, official Bureau of Naval Personnel magazine, last week published a letter to all Reservists from square-shooting, popular Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal. The gist: the Navy would...
¶ President Truman entertained Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal at dinner.
In San Francisco, Navy Secretary James Forrestal held a planning session with Fleet Admirals King and Nimitz. Also present was shy, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, commander of the Fifth Fleet, which has conducted most big Pacific amphibious operations in the sweep westward from Tarawa.
The Navy moved up. Secretary James Forrestal said that a poll of servicemen would preponderantly favor universal service-"they believe as I do that the means to make war should be in the possession of the nations which hate war. . . ." From Admirals King, Nimitz and Halsey came urgent nods of...
For the brassbound Navy, this was quite a concession. Secretary Forrestal merged four separate Navy research agencies into one Office of Research and Inventions and gave Admiral Bowen, as chief, virtually a blank check to push the development and production of new devices for all branches of the Navy including...