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33 Staff General Collins' calendar (he was one of the people present). According to the New York Times, which got its information from a Pentagon spokesman, those present were Admiral Fechteler, the Navy Chief of Staff; General Sheppard, the Marine Corps Chief of Staff; Robert Lovett, the Secretary of Defence; General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and none other than General Nathan F. Twining, the Vice Chief of Staff for the Air Force. Hoyt Vandenberg was USAF Chief of...