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of patrol planes” edged out faster ships “in the Train” as the second most
urgent deficiency needing to be corrected. However, in connection with the
1934 Train, the Commander in Chief stated:
It is essential that we should have faster oilers. Either the Navy should build
them or we should subsidize private interests to build them.’
This latter suggestion, in effect, bore real fruit several years later, when
the Maritime Commission built the 18-knot Cimawon (AO-22 ), and the
Navy acquired her.
1934 was a year of major progress toward the proficiencies needed from
1942 to 1945, and from 195o to 1953. Fleet Problem XV was conducted in
the Pacific Ocean approaches to the Canal Zone area and continued in the
Caribbean during April-May 1934. A tentative cruising doctrine for a transpacific
campaign was developed and published. ‘7, 8; (b) Ibid., 1934, pp. 7, 8.
*“Ibid., pp. 12, 13, 14, 15, 18.