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[2] [3] In early June 1940, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that provided an 11% increase in naval tonnage as well as an expansion of naval air capacity. [4] On June 17, a few days after German troops conquered France , Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark requested four billion dollars from Congress to increase the size of the American ...
The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-524-0. Rose, Lisle (2007). Power at Sea: The Age of Navalism, 1890–1918. Jefferson City, MO: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1701-1. Sondhaus, Lawrence (2001). Naval Warfare 1815–1914 ...
The nonfiction book The Two Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War by U.S. naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, is a revised and shortened version of his multi-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. [1] [2] The one-volume book is 611 pages long. [2]
The Naval Act of 1938, known as the Second Vinson Act, was United States legislation enacted on May 17, 1938, that "mandated a 20% increase in strength of the United States Navy", [1] allocating $1.09 billion (equivalent to $18.5 billion in 2023 relative to GDP inflation [2]) for it. [3]
The Naval Act of 1916 was also called the "Big Navy Act" was United States federal legislation that called for vastly enlarging the US Navy. President Woodrow Wilson determined amidst the repeated incidents with Germany during the First World War to build "incomparably, the greatest Navy in the world" over a ten-year period with the intent of making the U.S. Navy able to defend itself against ...
[2] [5] As Navy production chief, Robinson formed one leg of a Navy high command triumvirate whose other members were King, as chief of naval operations and commander in chief of the United States Fleet; and Vice Admiral Frederick J. Horne, as vice chief of naval operations. Robinson delivered naval hardware and supplies to Horne, who combined ...
Despite her deepest fears, Joseph came home from his two combat tours at age 22, physically sound. But the demons of his moral injuries followed close behind and eventually closed in on him. It turned out, she realized too late, that coming home was more dangerous than being at war. “It wasn’t Afghanistan where he died,” she reminded me.
As of March 2023, in a report to congress, the Navy has announced that while the class would continue to be known as the Columbia-class, there was as of yet no particular naming scheme set for the class. [3] But with only two state names available, a change to a different scheme is likely, see the Virginia-class submarine entry for more ...