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If the theories of the late great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan are correct and World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest—on water. Within seven days three submarines, three freighters, three passenger ships and a battleship went to the bottom.
Admiral Mahan died in 1914, too early to realize that World War I would produce another kind of power, air power. Far swifter, far...
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