In 1941 the War Production Board asked if I would go to England and find out how to build the first power gun turret plant in the United States.
In 1941 the War Production Board asked if I would go to England and find out how to build the first power gun turret plant in the United States.
I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.
Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.
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