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necessity for aircraft carriers of the maximum size and speed to supply our fleet with the offensive and defensive power which aircraft provide, within their radius of action, as an effective adjunct of the fleet. It is likewise essential that effective anti-aircraft armament be developed.

25. The Joint Board recommends that the provisions of the previous orders of the War and Navy Departments relative to secrecy concerning the results of the aviation and ordnance experiments be rescinded and that this report, if approved by the War and Navy Departments, be issued jointly to the press.

John J. Pershing
Senior Member

Navy Department
Approved: August 18, 1921.
Theodore Roosevelt
Acting Secretary of the Navy

Approved:
John W. Weeks, 
Secretary of War.