TESTIMONY OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, JAMES FORRESTAL BEFORE THE SENATE ARMED FORCES COMMITTEE TUESDAY, MARCH 18,1947

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• Publication Date: March 18, 1947
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SENATE ARMED FORCES COMMITTEE
atement on the bill to unify and integrate our
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What r say
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departments for national security is based on two main premises:
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, JAMES FORRESTAL
arent during and since the war, for the
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First, there is a nee
planned integration of all the elements, energies and forces in our nation
which have to be drawn upon to wage successful war. In these categories
and the State Department but industry,
d Nav
y
come not merely the Army an
labor, transportation, civilian economy, and not least important, a study
of raw materials and stock-piling of those basic materials which in wartime
have to be imported in greatly increased quantities..
lan for the unification or consolidation of the
a
ny p
Second, nothing in
f our national security system should destroy
t
s o
purely military elemen
the morale and autonomy of the Navy and its components, including
The identity of
l aviation
.
particularly the Fleet Marine Forces and nava
the Naval Service, with all of the considerations of morale and corps
-spirit involved, must be preserved.
war is global and the Navy's point of view
d
ern
The character of mo
is essential in the conduct of a global war. I believe that had 1 the t tus anjI
d not
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ly en
of the Navy in the war recen
tions would have continued long beyond
s
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it is probable- that the Pac if i
August 14, 19.45. Naval insistence that the Pacific War be vigorously waged
States
tile and
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concurrently with the struggle in Europe
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"ter the fall of Germany.
Having stated these premises I will proceed with discussion of the bill
now before you.
after the end of World War II,
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are in agreement that the bill before you, considered in its entirety, is
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Air, Navy and Ground. Forces - should be difisioas or
the three services -_
branches;
of the Air Forces -- that they were entitled to be placed on a parlt i
Two
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with the other two older services;
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