 During that period, Woodward and his wife officially resided at the Commandant's House in the Navy Yard, but they stayed more often in an Upper West Side apartment on Riverside Drive, due to Charlotte Woodward's objection to the industrial noise and soot of the Yard.Contention surrounded the construction of materiel in the years leading up to World War II.Woodward was convinced that only battleships, not aircraft carriers and their warplane squadrons, could project sufficient naval power abroad.