This is a picture of the opposing fleets and bases: The United States fleet of under-age fighting ships now in commission comprises 15 battleships, 27 cruisers, five aircraft cartiers, 40 destroyers and 31 submarines. We have numerous overage warships in lighter categories.
Our main fleet at present is in Hawaiian waters, where a first class naval base at Pearl Harbour is avai able to support it. In addition, a few base is being built at Dutch Harbour, on the Alaskan island of Unalaska. Both of these bases will be able to support the fleet.
Air bases have been built or are being built at Midway, Wake and Johnston islands in the Hawaiian area and at Kodiak Island and Sitka, Alaska. Canton Island of the Phoenix group, dust south of the Equator, and Page Page, Samoa, are also fitted as air bases.
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