an air or a naval strategy was considered most important. Of this analysis work, nothing was enacted; Marshall did not bring the problem and its suggested solutions to either the Navy or the president. McNarney went to Europe as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean Theater and commanding general of the United States Army Forces, Mediterranean Theater, in October 1944. He was promoted to full general in March 1945 and in September became acting supreme allied commander of the Mediterranean Theater. McNarney was complicit in the repatriation of men of Soviet origin who had fought alongside the forces of the Western Allies in Italy against the Nazis to the Soviet Union to face Stalinist oppression, as part of Operation Keelhaul. Post-war After Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed the Chief of Staff of the Army in Washington, D.C., McNarney took over his position as commanding general of the United States Forces in the European Theater and commander in chief, United States Forces of Occupation in Europe in November 1945. At the same time he was military governor of the American occupied zone in Germany in Frankfurt until the beginning of 1947. Thus he was also the American representative in the Allied Control Council. Therefore, he was jointly responsible for the American food policy in occupied Germany in the harsh hunger-winter of 1946/47. However, McNarney rarely displayed interest in his job; instead delegating most of his responsibility to his deputy governor, Lucius D. Clay. On June 15, 1946, Clay, frustrated with the difficulty of the job given his position, wrote to Secretary of State James Byrnes requesting his retirement. Secretary Byrnes pleaded for Clay to stay on, and Clay agreed. Shortly thereafter, McNarney was posted to a position in Washington, and Clay replaced McNarney as governor. McNarney returned to the United States as senior member of the United Nations Military Staff Committee in New York City in March 1947. His first assignment as a general in the newly independent United States Air Force was as commander of Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio in October 1947. He left Air Materiel Command to become chief of the Department of Defense's Management Committee in September 1949. McNarney retired on January 31, 1952, and held executive positions with General Dynamics, and later served on the Draper Committee. He died February 1, 1972, in La Jolla, California. He is interred at