SEA WARFARE
NAVY'S MANIFOLD TASKS
(British Official Wireless.)
(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 20. Mr A. V. Alexander (First Lord of the Admiralty), in a speech, emphasised that three particular changes had taken place in sea warfare since ,1014-18, which had enormously increased the task of the Royal Navy, and the threat to our communications. They were the greatly-increased radius and striking power of aircraft, tho 4 far greater endurance and capabilities or U-boats, and the big extent _ and variety of enemy mining operations. Countering these was the main task of our naval effort, and it was in doing so that the Navy suffered most of its casualties. These had' been large, even by the standards of the last war, but they had not been in vain, for the sea lanes of the United Nations were still open. They must be kept open so as to get fuel for our bombers over Germany and so that supplies could be sent to Russia and outposts like Malta, No second front would be possible unless we controlled the sea as well as the air.
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Evening Star, Issue 24331, 21 October 1942, Page 3
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182SEA WARFARE Evening Star, Issue 24331, 21 October 1942, Page 3
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