Port of Nama.

Brigadier Admiral William Fletcher arrived early at the seaplane dock requisitioned by the 1st Mixed Wing of the Navy to prepare for the day's mission in person.

As a rare aeronautist in the U.S. Navy, Fletcher proposed as early as 1910 that in a future war, the Chinese Navy would likely take off seaplanes from fast carriers to attack Pearl Harbor, but was dismissed as "delusional" by the naval chiefs at the time.

Compared with other naval powers, the Americans' eyes were more focused on battleships, and they paid less attention to auxiliary ships such as cruisers and destroyers, so that from 1905 to 1913, not a single new cruiser was started in eight years, and most of the more than 80 destroyers were 400,700 small destroyers, which were almost unsuitable for fighting in the vast Pacific Ocean.

Against this backdrop of the dominance of the world with only big ships and huge artillery, Fletcher, who dreamed of building a powerful naval aviation force, ran into obstacles at every turn, but he was not discouraged, and finally got along with Washington Owen Chamber, assistant to the director of the Bureau of Naval Supplies, who had the same ideals.=: Chambers stepped forward and was allowed to test the take-off of the aircraft on the warship.

November 1910