Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force of 558,000 men, an active fleet of eleven battleships, 36 large-to-jeep air craft carriers, 49 large-to-light cruisers, 175 destroyers, 40 destroyer escorts, 90 submarines, a "laid-up reserve" of 681 warships, 5,002 active and laid-up auxiliary vessels, 8,000 aircraft, 40 big & little Atlantic and Pacific bases, 97 air stations, air-material centers and air-gunnery schools in the U.S. The whole would cost the U.S. an estimated $3,525,000,000 a year, exclusive of new shipbuilding or shore works. It was a "very substantial" sum indeed, but in terms...
...Forward-looking Marc Mitscher reassured his followers, however, by declaring that, while the carrier was now the backbone of the fleet, "new weapons may eliminate surface craft...
Like Patterson, Marshall was careful to emphasize that the War Department was proposing a merger of equals; there was no suggestion that the Navy should be swallowed by the Army. They also insisted that the air forces (except liaison and scouting craft) should become the third, co-equal branch...
...first-line ships list-battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers, destroyer escorts and submarines-represented 496,994 tons, or 46% of the Navy's combat force at the time of Pearl Harbor. The great majority (144) of the supporting vessels lost were bow-ramp landing ships and craft which did not exist, except in blueprint, when the first bombs fell...
...list contained no major surprises: all but the small vessels had been identified before hostilities ended. One minor surprise: the minesweeper Crow was sunk in Puget Sound in 1943 by "air attack" -a nonexplosive torpedo dropped by a U.S. training bomber sent the 97-ton craft to the bottom...