Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1942 — Page 8

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PAGE IS TOKYO NEXT |'Japs Still D FOR BOMBERS: ] = i | Japs Must Be Wondering | =¢ offensive for the southwest] Pacific. ! After 4000-Mile Yankee | Participants said the planes| passed through perhaps the most | Raid on Philippines. | furious anti-aircraft barrage ever] fired in the Philippines. WASHINGTON, April 16 (U.P).! “The whole affair was a field day| ~The Japanese, an army air offi- ‘and for two days we had somecer said today, must be asking—"if thing like a picnic,” Gen. Royce said the Americans can bomb the the lin describing the attack. Philippines, cant they bomb He told how the three flying Tokyo?” fortresses and 10 North American The answer remains to be given. But in anv event, the offieer added. the 4000-mile raid of American | _ _ us cnbiny Are mhbers ba n ustralia n 7 y A | Fighting off fighter planes, the! Mindanao, whatever the material |bombers sank four transports, probdestruction wrought, was also a|ably sank a fifth, damageq three powerful blow in the war of nerves. J A pA — : vessels, destroy 1 S a or NY highly w and damaged many and bombed Anlitarv men here unanimously hangars, airdrome runways, docks, praised the daring and unprece- “Aarehouses and enemy troop condented efor of 25-year-old Brig centrations. ; Gen. Raldh Royce, who led the three! But most important from the fiving fortresses and 10 smaller military aspect was the frightening R-25s which made the hop, <kip | Effect on Japanese morale and the and “bombshell-out-of-'em” jump. ; heartening effect on the Americans | 7 and Filipinos who still are fighting] |strongly in the Philippines,” he] | said. Break Through Blockade | The 25 persons brought back | slipped out of Corregidor fortressin | Manila bay last week-end and met the bombers at a secret rendezvous for the flight to Australia, where] they arrived yesterday. They broke through the blockade under the noses of the Japanese] who at the time were savagely! shelling Corregidor from batteries; on two sides of the mainland while! enemv naval bombers hurled their missiles on the island. Fresn from Bataan and Corregidor, they said that present casual- | ties on Corregidor did not exceed | {11 to 15 a day, that the morale of | | the defenders was sky high and that {the island had sufficient food and | water for a considerable stand.

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exploit of the American bomber | Drakeford called the planes, which are believed to have the Philippines “intelligent, cool-

the American airmen, said at Canberra today that their feat was!'in personality and implacable patri-

Lightnings would go good because some indication of what can be they can be stripped for long radius expected of them when the time flying and can outrun the fastest comes for the allied offensive in Jap planes.” {the Southwest Pacific. All Australia today thrilled to the, Australian Air Minister Arthur S. raiders of

broken all records in aerial war-| headed lads of the type of our fare by their 4000-mile flight. | British kinsmen who defeated GerAustralian War Minister Francis /many’s air blitz on Britain many M. Forde, hailing the gallantry of months ago.” i “They are bold of heart, vibrant

ots of a great nation possessing | planes capable of higher speeds greater maneuverability and greater diving speeds than those of the enemy,” Mr. Drakeford said.

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bombers went to Cebu with instruc- | tions to bomb transports and escorts. «Sunday afternoon we raided Cebu again and Davao for the first time. “Monday morning we repeated the attacks on Cebu and Davao, and successfully bombed transports and | | installations. : | «We lost one plane Monday morn- | ing. It had been grounded to have an engine changed. The Japanese | radios had been burning up the | ether for hours, trying to find us. «They made five dive bombing | ! lattacks on the plane Sunday night’ and eight more Monday morning. | «They scored just one hit, but! that set the bomber afire.”

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During all their attacks, the planes made but one at high level. Yet despite the daring attacks at} 2000 to 5000 feet only one of the | 12 ships which made the round : trip was hit, and it was not seriously damaged. It was at 2000 3 feet at the time. Gen. Royce praised the performance of all bomber crews and revealed that he piloted a bomber for five hours himself, He could not pilot during the actual attacks because he had to “maintain communication and give directions to] all ships. Fliers who took part in the raid | praised the brilliant performance | ‘of the fiving fortresses and North, | American B-23s under punishing rations there,” Gen. Royce said. | conditions and operating at long “It threw the Japanese into panic. | range. | We went over at dawn. | “North American certainly de“You can imagine their bewilder- Serves a pat on the back for that ment when suddenly out of the sky ship.” Lieut. Col. Davi there appeared a big bunch of give the ¥aps plenty bombers coming down on them the wars over. “They didnt know where the “Gotta Win the War’ bombers came from and they used up the whole day trying to find out where we were coming from! and the means to stop us.” Lieut. Col. John H. Davies, who piloted one of the bombers, said

This map shows the 2000-mile route taken by American bombers from Australia to raid Japanese bases in the Philippines. Timor island, where U. S. fliers continued to raid enemy invasion bases today, also is shown.

of hell before!

‘smallish, deeply tanned, serious | navigator, Lieut. William Clapp, | Long Beach, Cal, as they luxuriated

enemy anti-aircraf fire was heavi-|, est over Davao, that there also Jap. |i @ hotel enjoying thoroughly the

anese navy-O planes persistently at- | SROWers, et B V2! fast and bed. “I turned on one of them,” he said. “I maneuvered alongside and

nd win the war.”

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bv Lieut. Col. Davies told how take care of herself.” said Lieut. Col. Davies dove down upon the Jap-| Davies. anese seaplane, calling to the gunner “We could use plenty of dive over the earphones: | bombers “I'm going down to get that guy.” Dlanes. High level bombing is o. k. “And down we went” said the under good conditions. gunner, “and I blew him to hell” dive bombers you can put ‘em down “The whole raid plan was drawn the chimney any time, in any up by Gen. MacArthur and the weather. staff.” Gen. Royce said. | “One dive bomber sinks one ship. “We left Saturday but the opera- If we get plenty of dive bombers tion actually began Sunday. | we can wreck Japanese supply lines. “First we called at Batangas, on|

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