As the United States prepares to deliver its second one-hundred-thousand-ton Gerald Ford-class supercarrier later in 2019, it’s easy to forget that until the mid-1950s the Navy’s carriers displaced ...

Princeton recently received the personal papers of James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense. The papers, composing documents, manuscripts, and diaries are in Nassau's Firestone Library. The ...

A letter from former Navy Secretary James Forrestal apparently arrived at a home in Point Richmond, Calif., in October – 67 years after it was mailed. Dated Feb. 5, 1946, the letter thanked Point ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As they each approached forty years of service, the Forrestals were decommissioned one-by-one between 1993 and 1998—but stayed busy right until then. In 1993, Ranger ...

JAMES FORRESTAL by Arnold A. Rogow. 397 pages. Macmillan. $6.95. At a congressional ceremony on March 29, 1949, James Forrestal, retiring as the first Secretary of Defense, received a silver bowl and ...

James Forrestal, BT 122361/69 - Radio message to the USS Orange announcing the death of President Franklin Roosevelt. 13 April 1945 I have the sad duty of announcing to the naval service the death of ...

Almost any night last week asmall, trim man with a boxer’s nose could be seen letting himself out of an office in the Pentagon Building and striding briskly down the corridor with a brief case heavy ...

The U.S. Navy’s first supercarrier -- the long-decommissioned Forrestal -- has begun its final voyage to a Texas scrapyard, after the Pentagon tried to sell it, found no takers and had to pay a penny ...

ABOUT James Forrestal, dead only two years, legends have already clustered. In some quarters he is regarded as the apostle of preparedness — the prophetic voice in the wilderness when post-war America ...