Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798 - 2007. Official Military Personnel Files, 1885 - 1998. Official Military Personnel File of James Vincent Forrestal.

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Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798 - 2007. Official Military Personnel Files, 1885 - 1998. Official Military Personnel File of James Vincent Forrestal.

1917-1949

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40914654

This Official Military Personnel File includes records from the following folders: Service Documents (June 1917-August 1949); Field File/Jacket or Record Book (June 1917-November 1917); Correspondence (August 1918-September 1949); Efficiency/Fitness Reports (January 1918-December 1918); Medical Records (November 1917-May 1949).

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National Archives at St. Louis

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SNAC Resource ID: 11651252

National Archives at St. Louis

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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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 Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...