The U.S. Chiefs of Staff and their planners, on the other hand, felt relieved that this possible threat to concentration on Operation Overlord had at last been removed.

The U.S. Chief of Engineers, General Joseph Gilbert Totten, is quoted as saying, "you might as well bombard the Rocky Mountains."

In 1946, he was briefly the U.S. Chief of Military Intelligence.

Ambassador Milam served as U.S. Chief of Mission in Liberia from November 8, 1995 to August 23, 1998.

Thomas Moorer, Admiral and former U.S. Chief of Naval Operations (mooring is an operation on ships)

Thomas B. Hayward, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations (1978-1982)

He was U.S. Chief of Protocol for the White House in the Carter administration with the rank of Ambassador.

Died: Admiral Harold R. Stark, 91, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations when Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Admiral David L. McDonald, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations during the Vietnam War (1924)

The U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral King, considered court-martialling Captain Gallery.