One of the largest naval forces in the world is one of the newest: 333 combat vessels, 1,274 mine craft and patrol craft, 151 auxiliaries and 654 yard and district craft, 12,964 landing craft. The new fleet, of respectable strength in its own right, comprises the vessels of the U.S. Navy completed in the three years between July 1940 and July 1943. Added to the existing tonnage (and allowing for losses and transfers), the new ships give the U.S. "the mightiest surface fleet in world history."
Such was the solid conclusion of the Navy's three-year-progress report published...
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