ARMY & NAVY: Fleet Problem No. 14

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The lepers on Molokai gazed out to sea one day last week and beheld a long smoky line of ships smudging the Pacific horizon. Cut off from the world, few of the lepers knew that they were sighting the U. S. Scouting Force, assembled in Hawaiian waters to begin the Navy's annual war games. Normally based on the Atlantic seaboard, the armada was in Pacific waters for the second successive year. Economy had been the Navy's explanation for not sending the Scouting Force home. Japan urbanely ignored any darker reason....

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