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| | Air Power:The Aircraft Carrier |
 | | Money for a new fleet of supercarriers, however, was hard to come by because, after the war, defense spending had been reduced to a level that would support only one large project. |
 | | The air force won, and the supercarrier project was canceled even though the keel of the first supercarrier, the USS United States, had been laid down just five days earlier. |
 | | The navy and the Marine Corps, which usually did not cooperate on funding issues, united to discredit the air force project, afraid that the funding of the B-36 was the first move in the process to unify all aviation under one service, a development they opposed. |
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