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ARMY & NAVY: Coast Artillery Victory

If a hostile airplane squadron took off from a sea carrier ten miles off shore, and moved forward to ravage the U. S. coast, would the responsibility for bringing it down fall to the Navy's fleet or to the Army's Coast Artillery Corps? Long have the two services wrangled in stuffy professionalism over this point, each claiming the sole privilege of repulsing such an aerial invasion. Quietly, almost casually, the Army last week won a victory over the Navy when, after months of conferences between Army and Navy Boards and a joint Congressional...

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