Carrier Roosevelt Taking Truman To Big Navy Show; President To Get First Hand Review (Flashback!)

Alexandria Gazette via DrudgeReport.com ^ | 4/22/1946 | United Press

[SunStar]

Carrier Roosevelt Taking Truman To Big Navy Show; President To Get First Hand Review Alexandria Gazette
4/22/1946

By United Press

President Truman is seeing one of the greatest shows on earth today-and from the best seat in the house. The Chief Executive is aboard the Navy’s mightiest carrier-the Franklin D. Roosevelt-for a first hand review of the brand of action which swept the Pacific clean of Japanese warships.

Shortly after breakfast, Mr. Truman and his party were transferred in a launch from the Presidential yacht Williamsburg to the carrier F.D.R. in Hampton Roads, Va.

Both the F.D.R. and an accompanying flat-top, the Princeton, gave the commander-in-chief a 21 gun salute. Then he climbed briskly up the gangplank, while the boatswain blew his shrill pipe, and the side-boys stood at attention. He was greeted on the hangar deck by Admiral Mark Mitscher, commander of this special task force, and other high ranking officers aboard.

Maneuvers in Atlantic

The two carriers pulled up anchor soon after the President was aboard the Roosevelt, and set out for the Atlantic where they will conduct maneuvers off the eastern seaboard for two days.

One of the special features of the show will be a demonstration of how carrier planes turned back Jap fleets in the historic naval battles of Midway, Coral Sea and the Philippines.

But as the President heads for smooth sailing in the Atlantic his armed forces merger bill seems destined for a rough struggle. Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire says he has a compromise bill ready to introduce to the upper chamber, perhaps today. His bill is designed to preserve the independence of the War and Navy Departments by creating a new department of air, all three to have their own secretaries, but coordinated by a council of common defense. The bill Mr. Truman favors would combine all three services in a single cabinet department.

[KellyAdmirer]

I think this calls for a Congressional investigation of this blatant political showmanship.

[sine_nomine]

Truman favored the battleship Missouri because it was named after his state. Where was Jim Carville when THAT happened? Hmm?

I love getting more and more Byrd droppings in the press. The more he talks, the stupider he sounds.

[topher]

The carrier FDR was completed AFTER World War II ended.

And the Princeton was a replacement for the carrier Princeton that was sunk during World War II.

Both of these carriers were completed after the war, and did not see any action during World War II.