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Long-range argument against the deal is that the B-17 is the Army's most effective weapon for reconnaissance and bombing against attacking naval forces, but no Air Corps men expect to use them at that kind of job so long as Britain's fleet is in British hands. More immediate objection is that the Army has too few Flying Fortresses, is using them day & night to train pilots in the most complicated job of flying the Air Corps has. But air officers admitted that the big rush for B-17 training will...
Officials said the objective is to "increase efficiency in the operations and training of the vessels." The new patrol force will include units of the Atlantic Squadron, the neutrality patrol, and plane forces. It will be under Admiral James O. Richardson, Commander of the U. S. Fleet, and Commanded directly by Rear Admiral Hane Ellis, now chief of the Atlantic Squadron...
Similar were the experiences of the Duke's brother, King George. One day, after having the Prime Minister to lunch, he went during the afternoon raid, in the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, to call on A. V. Alexander, who is King at the Admiralty. There he saw the latest Admiralty maps and charts, read its latest wireless reports on the activities of the Royal Navy...
...last week, under the very muzzles of the British guns that guard the Rock, slid a flotilla of six fast warships flying the French flag. They were headed for the Atlantic. Although Marshal Pétain's Vichy Government has severed relations with Britain, and a British fleet in Oran Bay attacked and destroyed part of a French squadron last July, no gun fired on these French warships. They steamed confidently by Britain's scowling fortress, and sped...
...attack. We ourselves sent 2,000,000 troops to Europe, in 1917-18. We have been twice invaded from Europe, when the Atlantic Ocean was much wider than it is now. It all depends on who commands the seas, and in the event of the destruction of the British fleet we lose that command, perhaps forever...