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When the Navy reorganized its combat forces into three fleets last February, and Ernest King was put in command of the Atlantic Fleet, he joined a distinguished pair: Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel with the main Fleet in the Pacific, and Thomas Charles Hart in command of the Asiatic Fleet. Last week the Navy recognized Admiral Hart's success in his job, and its critical importance, by extending his tour beyond the normal retirement...
LONDON -- British defenders in Western Crete gave ground foot by foot in vicious combat today as hordes of German reinforcements arriving by air widened a break-through in the sector between Malemi and Canea, official sources said...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox today called for repeal of the neutrality act and strict adherence to a freedom of the seas policy under which United States merchant ships would discharge cargoes of war materials directly in British and other combat ports...
Better sounding is the fact that plane production has actually doubled since last November. From last October till last week contracts had been placed for 44,836 combat and noncombat planes (16,000 of them for Britain and Canada). In addition plans have been made for 2,400 medium bombers and 1,200 heavy bombers, whose parts are to be manufactured by automakers and assembled in Government plants...
...Materiel. Those guns stuck out like sore thumbs-for the maneuvers had brought out not only the Army's spectacular new function as an instrument of defense, but also Mexico's spectacular weaknesses. Mexico has only 42,000 first-line combat troops. There are some 60,000 additional Agraristas, country volunteers, armed with rifles by the Government. Yearly conscript classes may soon be added to the regular reserve...