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And like many another Navy airman, fighting Captain Crommelin was not quite facing facts. Though the Navy and its aviation had been cut down, as had all the services, from its wartime peak, it had lost none of its wartime missions. It had simply been denied a strategic-bombing role, which it had hoped to win with its 65,000 ton supercarrier. Long the nation's first line of defense, the Navy had not yet gotten used to the fact that the Air Force, by the advance of the science of warfare, was moving in ahead of it.