US Naval Training Center - Compass Yearbook (Bainbridge, MD)

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,m T, .Q hw ' 1 dr i :aa , , '1' I 1, 4 ., F 3 s ff- gt ,Q V ,A--fro 4 ,K A 4 v , Y . Firxt and foremoyt, you have in our armed forcef the fineJt navy in the world. Ship for fhip, plane for plane, gun for gun and man for man, there if no equal in quality the world ooer, The fleet if what the American people, through their elected reprefen- tatioe, want it to he. It if a hue fleet-a modern fleet, eager to tahe on any affigned taxis. Admiral jerault Wright, U.S.N. Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet and Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic

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