Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's sea power was far from broken by the loss of Royal Oak. Together the Allies have 22 capital ships; Britain has nine more abuilding, and France has four. Germany has two, as well as three pocket battleships. But when British movie-goers last spring watched a Herbert Wilcox (Nurse Edith Cavell) film called Torpedoed-in which by models and studio shots Royal Oak is sunk by a U-boat (see cuts)-they little realized the melodrama's terrible impending reality...
...theories of the late great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan are correct and World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest-on water. Within seven days three submarines, three freighters, three passenger ships and a battleship went to the bottom...
Admiral Mahan died in 1914, too early to realize that World War I would produce another kind of power, air power. Far swifter, far more plastic, perhaps far deadlier than any weapon previously invented by man, its great potentialities nevertheless remained, after 25 years of development and 1,000 hours of the war that would ultimately prove its potency, almost as untried as the 2,000,000 troops facing each other last week across the Rhine...
...airmen's Mahan is General Giulio Douhet, an Italian artilleryman who survived War I to propound the doctrine that air power is the decisive power. The Douhet theory holds that major wars can be won, and won quickly (while ground troops are mobilized as they are on the Western Front), by unrestricted mass destruction poured on civilian populations, their communications and utilities, from thousands of airplanes carrying hundreds of tons of bombs. So far War II has seen...
...fighters is the Curtiss P-36, of which she bought 200. Its 275-300 m. p. h. are not enough. Its air-cooled engine, offering considerable wind resistance ("like running for a trolley car with your overcoat open," says Al Williams), does not streamline as neatly as liquid-cooled power-plants. However, the French have repeatedly expressed themselves satisfied with the P-36, and have claimed that it even outfights the Messerschmitt, being more maneuverable...