[bigtoona]

I will say that Doolittle was a great, great man who basically turned the war in our favor on the Japanese front. He created and designed the bombing of Tokyo which demoralized the japanese and made them question the emperor for the first time. He was air force so he obviously had little skin in the game for the marines. So I can see why it made sense to some people to combine them with the army for some efficiencies.

Not saying I agree with it, just that some of the people supporting it had the best interests of the military in mind while others were probably commies that wanted to weaken us.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Part of the reason he wanted to get rid of the Marines is that he wanted rid of the Marine Aviators. He figured with them gone he could pressure the Navy to give up their Aviators and have the entire fixed wing forces under his command.

The Air Force never should have been allowed to form as a separate branch.

Marine and Naval Aviation shows why.