Word: navymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...independent air force, for which even ground generals enthusiastically fought. Its mind was open to changes in detail. But the Navy had no adequate plan to replace or revise the present system of divided administration and command - aside from a report made by Financier Ferdinand Eberstadt over which Navymen themselves could not agree...
Senators were impressed. Navymen loaded their guns with heavier, angrier words...
This time, Navymen wet their fingers and gazed anxiously aloft. The clamor for immediate demobilization and the complaints of reserves whistled through the rigging. The drive to merge the services (see below) might blow either fair or foul. The Navy no longer had such a great and loving friend in the White House as a Roosevelt (T. or F.D.). Onetime Artilleryman Harry Truman went out of his way last week to give the men in blue and gold the back of his hand. Praising General of the Army George Marshall the President wisecracked: "He [Marshall] succeeded in getting the Navy...
...Congress in January, 1945: "We can fulfill our responsibilities for maintaining the security of our own country only by exercising our power and our influence. . . ." George Marshall translated this into practical, military terms: "The only effective defense a nation can now maintain is the power of attack." Navymen put it this way: "Our mission is to wage the peace around the world." Not even Theodore Roosevelt had suggested such a manifest destiny. It was a reversal of the traditional U.S. policy -never to attack until attacked - which culminated in the Pearl Harbor disaster and the destruction of Douglas MacArthur...
...Navymen recently marched up the Hill to tell Congressmen what they wanted. This was the postwar force which the Big Brass outlined...