At the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe the US Navy ranked equally with the Royal Navy in overall naval strength. By the time the US was drawn into the war, in December 1941, there had been enacted, in the previous year, the 'two-ocean navy' bill which authorised t he construction of over one and a quarter million tons of combatant warships which, when implemented, raised the US Navy to a pre-eminent position among the navies of the world; a position it has not relinquished since...

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