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surfboats from the Lighthouse Tender "Makui" and set up and made ready for flight in a couple of hours by two mechanics. Aircraft may be carried as deck loads on submarines - a modern submarine may carry six - landed in their own waterproof cases and not up in a short time. The cases can then be used as boats and lighters for the debarkation of other supplies. If operating overseas, a small organized air force can be ready to strike within six hours of its arrival at its debarkation point.

In the application of air power certain principles must be clearly held in mind. To begin with, any operation in the air requires that the advantages derived from it must be fought for, just as a corresponding operation on land worth while requires armed contact because if it is worth while the enemy will attempt to stop it. To insure the operation of aircraft, therefore, the pursuit aviation must be concentrated at the decisive point at the inception of the operation. To be effective aviation has to act in concentrated compact bodies because, if it does not, it can be defeated in detail no matter what the size of the opposing force may be. For this reason,

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