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Title: Secretary Forrestal makes last inspection of U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School : a German glider bomb in foreground
Date: 1945-09-12
Creator: United States. Navy
Description: Inscribed on back: Sec. of Navy Forrestal (right), Vice Admiral Charles M. Cooke, Jr., USN (third left), Chief of Staff to Fleet Admiral King, and Rear Admiral George F. Hussey, Jr., USN (fourth left) Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. A Nazi glider bomb is examined by Sec. of the Navy James Forrestal (right) during his last inspection of the Washington, D.C. Navy Bomb Disposal School on September 11, 1945. The school is to be decommissioned on September 30. The school is located at American University.
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Washington (D.C.)
Subject -- Personal Name: Forrestal, James, 1892-1949; Cooke, Charles Maynard; Hussey, George F.
Local Identifier: f02-a07-01
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library -- University Archives
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-5538
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this document is available from the American University Library -- University Archives.

Title: Secretary Forrestal makes last inspection [of U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School] before it was decommissioned on 30th September, 1945
Date: 1945-09-11
Creator: Unknown
Description: Inscribed on back: Released: September 12, 1945. Secretary Forrestal makes last inspection of Bomb Disposal School. Making his last inspection of the Washington, D.C. Navy Bomb Disposal School before it is decommissioned on September 30, 1945, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal looks over the display of captured enemy equipment. The Nazi glider bomb in the foreground was the one which pierced three decks of the cruiser USS SAVANHAH in the Mediterranean. Accompanying the Secretary (third left) on his tour of the school on September 11 was Vice Admiral Charles M. Cooke Jr. USN (left), Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet. The school is located at American University.
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Washington (D.C.)
Subject -- Personal Name: Forrestal, James, 1892-1949; Cooke, Charles Maynard
Local Identifier: f02-a02-01
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library -- University Archives
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-5533
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this document is available from the American University Library -- University Archives.

Title: Secretary Forrestal receives memento of U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School
Date: 1945-09-12
Creator: United States. Navy
Description: Inscribed on back: Secretary Forrestal makes last inspection of Bomb Disposal School. As a memento of his inspection of the Washington, D.C. Navy Bomb Disposal School at American University, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal is presented with a humidor and a cigarette lighter made from captured enemy equipment by the Officer-in-Charge of the school, Lieutenant Commander J.P. David, USNR. The humidor was made from a Nazi fuse, and the lighter (which is inside the humidor) from a Japanese hand grenade. The school, scheduled to be decommissioned on September 30, 1945 holds its last graduation on September 15.
Subject: Souvenirs (Keepsakes); World War, 1939-1945 -- Washington (D.C.)
Subject -- Personal Name: Forrestal, James, 1892-1949; David, J. P.
Local Identifier: f02-a08-01
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library -- University Archives
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-5539
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this document is available from the American University Library -- University Archives.