"You cannot conduct military operations in modern warfare without airfields which will allow you to at least establish temporary air supremacy."
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To Dudley Pound (28 May 1941), BLAM 52567. Cdr J. Somerville to author, 4 March 1999. Quoted in Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader (London: Routledge, 2004) ch. 7
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