Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985. U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographs Of Military Activity During World War II and The Korean Conflict, 1941 - 1954. France - Normandy Invasion Beachheads: Omaha and Utah Beaches. General Eisenhower and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal,

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985. U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographs Of Military Activity During World War II and The Korean Conflict, 1941 - 1954. France - Normandy Invasion Beachheads: Omaha and Utah Beaches. General Eisenhower and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, 8/21/1944.

1944

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Original Caption: "Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, left, appears happy following his conference with James V. Forrestal, right, Secretary of the Navy. The two met at the Allied Commander's advance headquarters in Normandy, France, and conferred at the same time with Gen. Charles De Gaulle of the French Army and Lt. Gen. A. E. Koenig, leader of the French resistance movement."

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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...