Princeton recently received the personal papers of James Forrestal ... as his administrative assistant. Forrestal later became Undersecretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary ...
By 1967, the U.S. Navy had transitioned itself into ... USS Forrestal was named after America’s first secretary of defense, James Forrestal (who was incidentally committed to a mental ...
The most important of these was James Vincent Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947, the Secretary of Defense. Not until Forrestal jumped to his death from the 16th floor of the Bethesda ...
Summary and Key Points: The Forrestal-class "supercarriers" were a product of the Cold War arms race, representing the U.S. Navy's push for advanced naval capabilities. -These carriers ...