US Naval Air Training Center - Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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726 alkwazmwe JAMES V. FUHHESTAL SNRETIHY W THE MW elumes V. Tomesml begume The forTy-eighTh SecreTcuy of The Navy on May 18, W44, when he succeeded The lute Hunk Kilrx, who died April 28, 1944. Before assuming his presenT posiTion, he served 05 Under SecreTory of The Navy. h him To The office of SecreTory of The Navy, 0 weolTh of experience and an enviable record gained 05 0 business execuTive and 0 public servonT. In June 1940, he resigned as PresidenT of The banking TTrm of DiHon, Reed and Company, To occepT on oppoinTmenT os AdminisTroTive AssisTonT To PresidenT RoosevelT in work connecTed wiTh NoTionol Defense Problems. ATTer serving in This copociTy for o shorT Time, he was oppoinTed To The office of Under SecreTory OT The Navy. As Under SecreTory of The Navy, he made several inspecTion Trips To The SouTh Pacific To obToin TirsT hond informoTion on The ocTiviTies of our Torces in ThoT area. The TirsT Trip Took him To Pearl Harbor, New Caledonia, 0nd EspiriTo SonTo, New Hebrides. LoTer he wenT To The Pacific aboard a boTTleship ThoT porTicipoTed in The BoTTIe of Kwoiolein, 0nd wenT oshcre en The second day afTer The Marines hod esToblished 0 beachheod. While on This Trip, he inspecTed insToHoTions OT Solomon Island, New Guinea and AusTrolio. WiTh TirsT hand knowledge of The huge Tosk ahead of our forces, SecreTory ForresTol hos vigorously expanded The U 5. Navy in oil deporTmenTs so ThoT H is now The IorgesT 0nd mosT powerful in The world. He has combined The meTiculous planning of The Chiefs of STOTT and The use of overwhelming power To carry The war To a successful ccnclusion. SecreTor ForresTol brou hT wiT y 9

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Through The unTiring eTTorT 0T PresidenT Roosevelt OS Commonder-in-Chief of all our armed l:' forces, The U. 5. Novel Sec ond AvioTion Branches have expanded unTil They have become The mosT TH powerful in The world Today. l1? As AssisTonT SecreTory of The Navy during World War I, he was 0 firm odvocoTe of Naval JV Sea and Air Pcwer, for The proTecTion of our shores and also 05 0 force for The moinTenonce of peace. ! There will be 0 place in The TuTure for which This greoT leader has laid The ToundoTionl The 13 combinoTion of Naval Air and Surface CrofT inTocT will provide one of The greoTesT keys To main- Toining The peace in The posT-wor world. Ar-Aw: Page I?

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L. GATE ArTemus L. GoTes, former PresidenT of The New York TrusT Company, broughT wiTh him To his presenT posT, c1 weolTh of experience gained 05 cm execuTive in a long disfinguished and successful business career. To add further To his back- ground, he has The disTincTion of being one of our TirsT Naval AvioTors. Previous To The ouTbreok of World War I, he was given The opporTuniTy To enTer The Navy's firsT TIighT Training program. ATTer successful compleTion of This Training, he was commissioned as on Ensign 0nd designoTed os Novel AvioTor No. 65 OUT of The original group who qualified. , During World War I, he served 05 Commanding Officer of The U. 3. Novel Air SToTion 0T Dunkerque, France. He had many oTher imporTonT ossignmenTs ThoT included ocTive flying and odminisTroTive duTies for The duroTion of The War. AT The conclusion of The war in 1919, as o LieuTenonT Commander, he was released from ocTive duTy and re- Turned To civilian life. T For his ocTive service in World War i, he was awarded The DisTinguished Service Medal TUSNT, The DisTingUished Flying Cross iBriTishT and The Croix de Guerre wiTh Palm iFrenchT. He was mode 0 Chevalier of The Legion of Honor by The French GovernmenT. Page 21