James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States...
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the United States Navy in the 1950s. The class ship was named for James Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense. It was the first class...
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USS Forrestal (CVA-59) (later CV-59, then AVT-59), was a supercarrier named after the first United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Commissioned...
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The James V. Forrestal Building is a low-rise Brutalist office building in Washington, D.C. Originally known as Federal Office Building 5, and nicknamed...
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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (redirect from James Forrestal Campus)
including the ATC, NSTX, and LTX. PPPL is located on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey. In 1950, John Wheeler was setting...
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Drew Pearson (journalist) (section James Forrestal)
critical reports about the treatment of US Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal. Forrestal, whom President Harry S. Truman had forced to resign, had committed...
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phrase attributed to United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal in 1949. In full, Forrestal said "The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming...
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Kennan revised a piece he had submitted to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal in late January 1947, but his role in government precluded him from...
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Forrestal may refer to: James Forrestal (1892–1949), United States Secretary of Defense USS Forrestal, United States Navy aircraft carrier 1967 USS Forrestal...
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On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom to fire...
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