Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More welcome to Chief of Staff Malin Craig than a huge air fleet is the money for other Army material. He estimates that he now needs at least $140,000,000 to equip properly the Regular Army's 174,300 officers & men, and 200,000 National Guardsmen & Reserves who would comprise an Initial Protective Force of 400,000-the Army to bear the first brunt of war while drafted citizens are being trained. The Roosevelt estimates (including the "educational" $32,000,000) would just about fill out General Craig's minimum program...
...fortnight Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn and three co-members of a board studying expansion of Naval defense lines recommended immediate establishment or improvement of 15 (out of 41 desired) submarine, destroyer, aircraft and mine bases, in the Pacific, Atlantic and Caribbean. Most dramatic item was a "strong advance fleet base" on the Island of Guam, far westward of the present limit of active operations in the Pacific, only 1,355 miles from Yokohama...
...shrewd question to which few U. S. citizens have an articulate answer. The General Staff of the Army believe that only Britain could invade North or South America, that Germany with all her air fleet could not do so because of her minuscule navy and shortage of transports, that Japan might seize the Philippines but hardly cross the Pacific...
...back the Loyalist destroyer rounded Europa Point, Gibraltar's southernmost tip. As she did so a Rebel cruiser hove into sight from the African shore. Six more Rebel warships, cruisers, destroyers, minelayers soon joined the chase. Guns from the 10,000-ton cruiser Carnarias, pride of the Rebel fleet, boomed. Batteries from Ceuta. in Rebel-held Spanish Morocco, some 15 miles across the Straits, bellowed. The destroyer, outclassed, nonetheless elected to fight. A shell struck the Jose Luis Diez's forecastle, killed four men. One of her own guns exploded and killed more of her crew...
...knighthoods and miscellaneous decorations distributed went to a gifted scientist who has brought his subject to the masses and a sailor who has brought the British Navy up to snuff. His Majesty was graciously pleased to add Sir James Jeans (The Mysterious Universe, etc.) and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield to the Order of Merit (British membership limited...