Word: mediteerranean
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...flight itself, apparently have received only tentative consideration and approval from policy-makers in the War and State Departments. There was nothing tentative, however, about Secretary of the Navy's James V. Forrestal's statement that the United States was maintaining the strongest fleet in the Eastern Mediteerranean to "support United States policies in that area"--as the Secretary put it. Nor was there anything indefinite or undecided in the whopping hops of the Army's Pacusan Dreamboat or the Navy's Truculent Turtle across the Pacific...
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