The speed of U.S. advance across the Pacific, far from solving the Navy's ship-production problems, has created new ones. This week softspoken, deliberate Vice Admiral Frederick Joseph Home, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, told what some of the problems were.
Priority ratings for more than 100 types of naval craft have had to be reshuffled. Little more than a year ago, top priority was held by destroyers and destroyer escorts for the Battle of the Atlantic. Soon they were nudged out of first place by landing craft needed for the Battle of...
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