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But ours, the youngest class to enter Communications School, has the resiliency of youth to carry it through the necessary adjustment. What the beefing lacked in experience was replaced in force and vigor.
"[We must] ring this land with a mighty circle of Gibraltars through whose cordon no enemy can ever penetrate. . . . The islands of the Pacific [which] are essential to us, must become ours. The Pacific Ocean must become an American Lake. . . .
"What we acquire we must fortify. . . . [In] the Atlantic, we must acquire by treaty or by occupation such islands and such territories as we deem necessary to our safety. . . . We must go far afield. Dakar and Casablanca . . . must be ours in permanence. . . . We must have our own permanent naval and...
The strength of the South Pacific fleet was the Navy's own and carefully guarded secret. One clue was the quiet confidence of Navy men. Admiral Ramsey said cryptically : "The situation has improved greatly down there in recent months." He also declared: "Their probable available first-line carrier strength...
Playwright Anderson had just returned from watching the progress of U.S. soldiers in North Africa. At night's end he wrote in the logbook: "There is no longer the slightest danger of bombing or invasion. . . . Let us get rid of this wasteful and retarding defense setup of ours."