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...world in the line of duty: once with the Atlantic Fleet on its circumnavigation in 1908, again in command of the gunboat Wheeling. Six months ago he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations. Now the umpires come to him with the verdict: "The Canal is wrecked; the fleet is wrecked???on paper. An enemy can wreck them again?without paper. Something must be done. The Navy needs more Army." Both as a member of the Joint Board and as practical adviser to the Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Eberle must design the remedy for a naval ill of which...
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