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Navy Secretary Forrestal has indicated that one way or another a compromise could be reached on unification of command. But on creation of an air department coequal with War and Navy-"I am not yet prepared to agree." Why not? Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz bluntly answered that question: the Navy "either gradually or at once [would] become a secondary service...
...aged 49) to quarterback its plays. One was lean, whip-smart Rear Admiral Arthur Radford, father of the Navy's wartime air training program and commander of a carrier task group in the Pacific War. The other was quiet, studious Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, "brain" of Admiral Nimitz' Pacific Fleet staff. In Navy circles they were considered to be progressive thinkers. Assignment of men of their caliber indicated that the Navy might try a new tack. But there was no reason to believe that either Radford or Sherman, both naval aviators, would give an inch...
Reverse Play. It was also hard to see how they could do much now to turn the tide. At week's end Nimitz himself testified before the Senate Military Affairs Committee...
Hero of the Pacific War, he was nevertheless a little suspect in Senators' eyes. The reason: a special committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appointed to survey merger opinion among generals and admirals, had reported Nimitz as favoring the idea on Dec. 8, 1944. The committee quoted him as saying: "I favor a single civilian secretary of armed forces, with a complete elimination of civilian secretaries for the Army, for the Navy, and for the Air Forces, with the idea of reducing any tendency to separation." This was eye-to-eye with the way the Army sees today...
...Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, who with brashness matching Doolittle's had claimed that sea power "ultimately compelled the Japs to ask for peace," Doolittle had an angry rejoinder: "The B-29 boys are probably resting uneasily in their graves as a result of those statements...