Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1941 — Page 2
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NAZI SHIP LOSSES REACH WAR RECORD
LONDON, Aug. 20 (U. P).— Authoritative quarters said today that enemy shipping captured, sunk or scuttled from the start of the war to Aug. 16 totaled 4.007.-| 000 tons The figure included 31 ships esti-| mated at 200000 tons which the Russians claimed to have sunk An Admiralty announcement said German shippi losses between July 10 and Aug. 16 of this year totaled 616,000 tons, the highest vet reported for a similar period Of the total Germ an tonnage amounted to 1,000 Italian 13533,000 tons, Fi h 34.000 tons. Additional lost sl useful to the enemn 119. -
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By GEORGE WELLER Coprright. 1841, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. BRAZZAVILLE, French Equatorial Africa, Aug. 20.—Flying 6500 miles over sea and jungle through territory frequented by hostile Vichy. German and Italian planes, the "Flying Wing.” an experimental : plane of daring design developed by American engineers, has arrived here safely in the capital of Free French Africa and become the flagship of the De Gaullist air arm. Assembled at the Cunliffe-Owens plant at Southampton, England, and piloted to the Congo by trans-Atlantic pioneer Jim Mollison, the completely unarmed plane arrived with a crew of four after evading Axis-Vichy forces by adroit night fiving. The “Flying Wing" will be used to transport officers and military mail to distant posts in the vast and little known wilderness stretching from the Congo watershed to the edge of the Libyan = Desert. d f ic A Col, Pierre Carettier, commander of the African ME elie Air Forces, invited the writer as the only civilian to Join his staff in the first test flight over the Congo rapids and jungle.
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With flames from smoking grass fires reddening the jungle clearings and smoke ascending thousands of feet high, we sat in a large oblong room occupying the body of the wing. We were arranged in two rows, like people in a movie theater, with the pilots ahead and above in a position corresponding to a movie screen. The roof within the wing was low and slanted, like an attic. The radio operator and navigator sat on the right and left, while two rows of green canvas seats running lengthwise with the wing between the two 870-horsepower Perseus engines, were occupied by 10 De Gaullist officers wearing shorts and sun helmets.
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THE “FLYING WING" first took the staff party over the whitetoothed rapids below the twin cities of Brazzaville and Leopoldville (Belgian Congo), whose gnawing rocks and 10-foot waves make the Congo among the most dangerous, but most easily defensible rivers in the world. Tiny dugout canoes were scattered like handfuls of cigars upon the narrow village beaches with arrowhead-shaped islands, characteristic of the Congo, sheltering them.
U. S. ‘Flying Wing’ Is Flagship of Free French Air Force
After following the shoreline of an jsland in midstream Congo
bigger than Manhattan, the “Flying Wing” veered and carried the De Gaullist staff over In military encampments, native soldiers reflearsing dances stopped thumping their drums to peer upward at the strangely shaped, doubleruddered plane with a truncated tail. It was undoubtedly the strangest “moupepe’—the native word for both hawk and airplane—they had ever seen. At the flight's conclusion, Col. Carettier told this correspondent:
“We are very glad to have this unusual American-originated plane to augment our forces, but we would appreciate it more if it were possible for the United States to release other planes of ordinary design for transport use. “What we must have soon is about 12 commercial planes, like the Douglas or Lockheed, to maintain normal military liaison for protecting our strategically invaluable belt of operations connecting the west coast of Africa with Egypt. While the Royal Air Force in the Middle East is being supplied with a steady stream of American air-
craft flowing eastward along the equatorial line hetween Vichy's Africa |
and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the great area of tropical jungle which we are quarding earnestly needs more planes which we hope America will be able to send to Free France as soon as possible.”
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