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weapons employed by it from shore bases, overlap and duplication now exist between the Army and Navy in the operation of aircraft for this purpose.

While the greatest accepted authority in the world on naval warfare, Admiral Alfred T. Mahen, stressed particularly the fact that the Navy should be free from any concern of its ports, the protection of the national interests or for its own resources, if it is to take the offensive which is its proper sphere, we find the Navy now providing land based aircraft for coast defense purposes.

As a result of this situation, Senator Hirem Bingham and Representative John Q. Tilson introduced identical concurrent resolutions in the Senate and House of Representatives during the last session of Congress, "to make a full investigation of the problem of the control of aircraft for seacoast defense, and to recommend to Congress, as soon as practicable, such legislation concerning aerial coast defense as it shall deem necessary or proper".

Senator Bingham in commenting upon this question in the Army and Navy Journal of March 3, 1928, stated:

   "The problem of the control of shore-based aircraft for coast defense, and especially of the bombing machines in that category, has long been a vexing one in the United States."

If along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida there were placed a series of batteries of big guns within supporting distance of each


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