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Author: Salvatore R. Mercogliano, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Campbell University

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One Hundred Years in the Making:

July 19, 2017

Events and Partnerships

Partnerships

In 1946, the new chiefs of the Navy and Army, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower, sat down to discuss a situation that had plagued their commands throughout the Second World War.