Qualifies for in-house shipping---Typed signed note dated August 5, 1942, to George Albert Ingham, Merit Badge Counselor with the Boy Scouts of America, signed "James Forrestal" and on The Under Secretary of the Navy letterhead; 6 3/4" x 5"---Appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Forrestal became Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the U.S. entered into WWII. He served as Secretary of the Navy from 1944-1947 and.was the first U.S. Secretary of Defense (1947-49). (Inv. 28)