BATTLESHIP POWER
AMERICAN ADMIRAL j UPHOLDS A TRADITION Rear Admiral Clark 11. Woodward, Commandant of the Third U.S. Naval District, del a red that superiority in number and cficicncy of battleships still determine the outcome of a naval Avar, and. added that no battleship in commission has ever been destroyed" by aerial bombing. In an address before the convention of the National Editorial Association, he said: "The battle fleet is the backbone of naval power, upon which the whole structure of naval strategy is based. Naval men are by no means contemptuous of the menace of air attacks . . . however . . . airplanes regardless of type, are auxiliary weapons only, and because of their restricted limitations can never be anything else." Admiral Woodward said "no news received from abroad during the pre sent war alias my personal opinion as to the final effectiveness" of the battleship.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 193, 31 July 1940, Page 7
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143BATTLESHIP POWER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 193, 31 July 1940, Page 7
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