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Jesse?
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Jesse, you think they're gonna...
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unify the services after the war?
:42:26
Yeah. It looks that way.
:42:30
A joint committee on military affairs...
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is holding a hearing. The end of June.
:42:38
Ostensibly, it's about the Army's
new bomber program.
:42:42
It's really about the Army pushing to be...
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the dominant service
in the military establishment.
:42:48
A lot of talk about the Air Corps
becoming a separate service.
:42:52
Yeah. Every senator in Washington...
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is infatuated with strategic bombing.
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You don't win a war
with strategic bombers!
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Right!
:43:04
If you did, Hitler would be sitting
in this room right now instead of us.
:43:07
Right! Hitler ruled the sky.
He had the greatest army in the world.
:43:11
But he couldn't make it across
30 miles of English Channel.
:43:15
Right.
:43:16
Hitler had everything, except a navy.
:43:21
Now he's finished.
:43:25
This planet is five-sixths water!
:43:29
God made it that way,
and that's the way it's gonna stay.
:43:31
In this world, you're as strong
as your sea power.
:43:34
- You tell them, Jesse!
- Damn right.
:43:39
My father was class of 1869.
:43:44
He beat the Army 2-0...
:43:46
when they were still pitching baseball
underhanded.
:43:48
I wish he was pitching for us this year.
:43:50
My grandfather died slipping a sloop...
:43:55
through the Union blockade at Charleston.
:43:57
I knew we'd get back to the Civil War.
:43:59
My people have shipped out for this
country under sail, wood and diesel...