General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. OP. CROSSROADS SECNAV FORRESTAL ARRIVES ABOARD PANAMINT

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. OP. CROSSROADS SECNAV FORRESTAL ARRIVES ABOARD PANAMINT

1946

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1) MS Group of observers meeting with SECNAV JAMES FORRESTAL (SV).2) CU Signal flag flying.3) LS Observers on deck observing various ships of target fleet.4) MS USS MT. McKINLEY (AGC-7) (SV).5) LS Target ships, observers in FG (SV).6) LS Observers (SV).7) CU Chart, showing approximate disposition of ships in target array at Bikini with actual position.8) CU Three observers.9) LS Man up in rigging aboard USS PANAMINT (AGC-13) observing (3-V).

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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...