Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific Fleet, known as the Black Fleet, under Admiral S. S. Robison, composed of 51 vessels, including most of the heavier and more modern battleships, was to simulate an enemy coming, in from mid-Pacific to establish a base on the coast of Lower California. The Atlantic Fleet, known as the Blue Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Josiah S. McKean, composed of 58 vessels, including only a few battleships, but with seven of the fast scout cruisers recently added to the fleet and with three new S type cruising submarines, was to advance up the coast from the Canal to prevent...
...Black Fleet in close formation, a fan of destroyers racing ahead, its supply ships carefully guarded behind, steamed toward the coast...
...Rear Admiral William S. Sims, U. S. N. retired, supported General Mitchell's charges that airplanes could sink battleships, but vigorously opposed a united Air Force. It was necessary, he maintained, that air pilots at sea be Navy officers so that they could cooperate intelligently with the fleet...
...Supposing France, instead of decreasing, was increasing her Air Fleet. Have we no other weapons for meeting such a menace without expanding our Air Fleet and placing an additional burden on the taxpayers? If France is building more airplanes, at whose expense will she be building them? The Chancellor of the Exchequer has a great weapon in his hand in the indebtedness of France by demanding from France some lessening of her expenditure on armaments...
...separation of aviation from the Navy and its incorporation in a separate department of the Government would be most injurious to the continued efficiency of the fleet in the performance of its mission...