Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commander Joseph P. Fitz-Patrick as associate professor of Naval Science...
These varied enterprises marked the latest Navy moves in its increasingly difficult publicity fight for a "reasonable appropriation." Last year, a highbrass conference in Key West decided that the three armed services would divvy up the defense budget almost equally, but ever since then, naval officers have had an increasing suspicion that their service was being cased out of its hallowed position as the nation's "first line of defense...
...Congressman James Van Vandt, Pennsylvania, a Navy man himself, and aired before an investigating committee this summer. Most of its charges were neatly shot down by the B-36 men. And the Navy found that its operating budget was squeezing things to a point where some of the big Naval Shipyards; essential to the fleet's war mobilization plans, would have to close up shop...
Other troubles appeared. When Capt. John Crommelin, rated one of the best naval aviators in the business, tried to defend the Worth letter a few weeks ago "at the peril of my naval career," he was promptly moved lout of Washington to a job with the fleet. the white House announcement of atomic explosions in Russia, coupled with persistent rumors of 5000 mile-ranged rockets coming out of the Russian experimental stations on the Baltic, stimulated a drive in Congress for a bigger Air Force. With the present limited defense budget, naval officers fretfully equated this against smaller fleet...
Most military experts are beginning to feel that this attenuated naval force would be less than unfortunate. They point out that the Navy's light fundamentally centers around the question of who is going to fly out bombers from where. The Navy wants to stage them from carriers, and points to the wonderful mobility and endurance of its carrier task forces in the Pacific during the last war. The Air Force feels that this admitted flexibility of the task force is outweighed by the size limitations inherent in carrier planes, and the expense and vulnerability of the ships handling them...