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52 Amphibians Came To Conquer
command of the sea can only be gained and held by vessels that can take and
keep the sea in all times and in all weathers and overcome the strongest
enemies that can be brought against them.G
Fortunately for the Navy in World War I, World War II, and the Korean
War, Congress bought this truism and has continued to buy it, irrespective
of the military characteristics or name of the particular “vessel” needed at
any particular year date to take and keep the seas.
Even if the professional Navy would not support the spending of all
its allotted share of the taxpayers’ money on submarines, it did go ahead with
their progressive development, and at the same time, it did urge and did
make progress in the even newer field of aviation.
Aviation had received its first really effective approval in the Navy when
Admiral George Dewey, President of the General Board, recommended to
the Secretary of the Navy in October 1910, that “the problem of providing
space for airplanes or dirigibles be considered in all new designs for scouting
vessels.”
By January 1914, airplanes had flown off and onto temporary platforms
erected on naval ships and there existed an ‘