Forrestal, James Vincent

Japanese: フォレスタル（英語表記）Forrestal， James Vincent

Born: February 15, 1892, Beacon, New York
[Died] May 22, 1949, Bethesda, Maryland. American politician. After graduating from Princeton University, he enlisted in the Naval Air Corps during World War I. After the war, in 1919, he became involved with Dillon Read Aircraft Company in New York, becoming its president in 1938. In June 1940, he became Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Administrative Affairs to President F. Roosevelt, and in August of the same year, he became Under Secretary of the Navy. In May 1944, he became Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947, when the Department of Defense was established, he was appointed the first Secretary of Defense, and was responsible for the reorganization of the three branches of the military. Due to the extreme fatigue during the war and the stress of dealing with the issue of integrating the three services, he suffered a severe nervous breakdown, and in March 1949, he resigned as Secretary of Defense, and in May of the same year, he committed suicide by jumping from the Bethesda Naval Hospital.

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Japanese:

[生]1892.2.15. ニューヨーク，ビーコン
[没]1949.5.22. メリーランド，ベセズダ
アメリカの政治家。プリンストン大学卒業後，第1次世界大戦中海軍航空隊に入隊。戦後 1919年ニューヨークのディロン・リード社に関係し，38年に同社社長となった。 40年6月 F.ルーズベルト大統領の行政関係補佐官，同年8月海軍次官。 44年5月海軍長官となり，47年国防総省の創設に伴って初代国防長官に任じられ，3軍の再編などを行なった。戦時中の極度の疲労や3軍統合問題処理の心労のため強度の神経衰弱にかかり，49年3月国防長官を辞任，同年5月ベセズダ海軍病院から飛降り自殺した。

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