Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1942 — Page 8

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MARGARET WINTER,

BORN HERE, IS DEAD

Word has been received here by relatives of the death yesterday of Mrs. Margaret Carey Winter of New |

York.

be in Crown Hill

Miss.

A native of this city, Mrs. Winter had lived most of her life in the!

east.

Survivors are the daughter, Mrs.| Will Micah Jenkins, and a granddaugh-| in the home, 1048 N. Beville ave, ter, Patricia Leenard, both of Aber-| With burial in Rogersville, Tenn.

deen.

Following cremation, burial win Rites Scheduled Tomorrow She died while! visiting a daughter in Aberdeen,

OFFICER DEAD

For Eunice Peats, Native of City.

Services for Mrs. Eunice B. Peats be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow

Mrs. Peats, wife of Charles R.

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Peats, city policeman, died yester-| | day at the family residence after a| | long illness. i ! A lifelong resident of this city, she {was a member of the East 10th | Street Methodist church. Survivors, other than her husband, {are a son, George Martin Wheeler; a daughter, Margaret Frances | Wheeler; two brothers, George O. i Wheeler, Rogersville, Tenn, and | John Wheeler of this city and a ! grandchild.

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Eye-Witness Stories of Fliers R

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and its own relentless attacks on it by plane, submarine and surface ship.

Believe Early Reports Of Victory Conservative

ARMY PILOTS alone, flying flying fortresses and Consolidated PBY bombers, severely damaged a heavy cruiser or a battleship, scored direct hits on a large transport and probably sank a destroyer in the first day of their attack. On the second day they scored direct hits on three large carriers and a heavy cruiser and downed three or four Japanese planes. The army’s own losses were only two medium bombers. But the full report of even the army's part is still to come. Some of the air force squadrons which took part have still to report from their remote bases. . There was little doubt that when the full reports of the navy, the army, the air corps and the marines are in, they will show a toli greater than that so far claimed—two or three carriers sunk with all their planes, one, destroyer sunk, three battleships damaged, at least one badly; one of two aircraft carriers damaged,

|| at least one badly, with most of

their planes lost; four to six cruisers damaged, at least two badly, and three transports dam-

aged. 8 & &

U. S. Forces Were Ready

| For Japanese Attack

THE JAPANESE lost many thousands of men killed, it was now certain. Ten thousand was

| said to be a conservative estimate.

They had been so confident that they would capture Midway

| that they carefully spared its air- | drome runways when they ati tacked it.

The army pilots revealed this

| outline of the battle:

1. The United States forces

| were ready for a major Japanese B| attack.

2. Three flying fortesses sighted

| the Japanese fleet on the after- | noon of June 3 and attacked it.

3. They were returning at dawn

| next day when navy patrol boats | sighted an even larger enemy | fleet and the air force was divert-

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| partment, said today. | the navy and the marines gave

ed to engage (it. 4. The Japanese fleet was in two columns with destroyers and lighter craft flanking the heavier unizs.

5. The aircraft carriers were | behind the main fleet, and army |

fiving fortresses went for them.

6. The carriers’ planes were at |

that moment attacking Midway. 7. The bombers returned to find

| that Midway had been under a

savage enemy plane attack. 8. Refueled, they went back to find the broken Japanese fleet

seeking desperately to escape.

= = = “Navy Found the Enemy, And Gave Them Hell” “THE NAVY found the enemy,”

i Brig. Gen. Willis H. Hale, Colo- | rado City, Colo., chief of bomb-

ing operations of the Hawaii de“The army,

them hell.” Summing up the army planes’

victims, he said:

“The total destruction by the

| army air corps may even surpass

| this total because many units at

| outlying bases have not had the

| opportunity to reveal the extent | of their activities.”

In addition to the two medium

| army planes lost with their crews,

| there were minor wounds to three | members of other crews.

The flying fortresses were ripped by shrapnel and machine gun bullets, but returned intact with one tail gunner wounded in a little finger. Two members of a flying for-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

WIFE OF POLICE Japs Took Smack on Nose at Midway,

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Sergt. Barnett, Oahu field, Honolulu, examines the scars of battle on a flying fortress which sank a destroyer in the Midway battle. This is an air force photo radioed from Honolulu and passed by the censors.

GRACE STRANGE SERVICES SET

Native of Madison County Dies After lliness of Two Months.

Mrs. Grace Strange will be buried tomorrow afternoon in Washington Park following 1 o'clock services in the Harry W. Moore peace chapel. Mrs. Strange, who was 40, died Tuesday at City hospital after an illness of two months. She lived at 112 W. North st. A native of Madison county, Mrs. Strange had spent the past 22 years in this city. She was a member of the Christian church.

tress squadron, the only real casualties, were killed at Midway by Japanese bombers while their planes were out. Lieut. Col. Walter C. Sweeney

Jr, San Francisco, leader of the |

flying fortress squadron which carried ou$ high level attacks on the Japanese fleet, said: “It should be emphasized that operations were carried out under most adverse conditions. The navy and especially the marines defending Midway were subjected to terrifically bad conditions. “The marines were detailed to defend Midway and I have never seen such devotion to duty and raw courage as they showed.” = 2 2

Tells How Three Planes Sighted Nippon Fleet COL. SWEENEY told how three planes of his squadron sighted the invasion fleet on the afternoon of June 3 and scored bomb hits on a heavy cruiser or battleship and a transport so large that “one of the boys described it as of the

Normandie class.” “Barly Thursday morning (June 4) the entire squadron went off the ground before dawn,” he said. “We decided to continue the attack on the ships which some of our planes had pasted the previous evening. “But while we were on the way to our objective we received word that another Japanese invasion fleet, including carriers, had been spotted by navy patrol boats. “We changed our course and headed for the new guarry. Thanks to the work of our navigator, Lieut. Bill Adams, San Bernardino, Cal, we found the Japs just where the PBY’s had told us they were, “We saw the ships lined in two columns with their destroyers and lighter craft flanking the heavier capital ships. We paid no attention to them. We were after the carriers, which we knew would be

farther back behind the main units. “Big fluffy clouds made visibility difficult, and the Japanese carriers tried to hide under them.

“ut we spotted them way down | in the ! clouds. There were two of them | in sight. I concentrated on one | which was circling round and |

below through a hole

round, the typical Japanese de-

fense maneuver against high level |

bombing attacks. = " »

“Make No Mistake, Jap Gunners Good”

“WE WERE greeted by a hail of anti-aircraft fire which flowered |

all around us, like big black puff balls. “Make no mistake, those gunners were good. They put up a veritable curtain of fire around the carrier. “Just then zero fighters came up to attack us and believe me things were pretty hot up there for a few minutes. “We swung around into bombing position with high explosives bursting all over the place and the zeroes banging away at us. “The carrier’s decks were empty. We found out later its planes at that very moment were attacking Midway. “Our element (three planes) went down out of the sun for the run over the target. “The doors of the bombing

compartment swung open and |

over we went. “We laid our bombs right smack across the port bow and we headed for home as fast as our motors would carry us. “I could not see the effects of our bombs immediately, but the tail gunner yelled over the interphone: “‘We got her right on the hose!”

Charges His Wife Shared Affection

OAKLAND, Cal, June 11 (U. P.) —Mrs., Virginia Beard, 20, wife of a University of California astronomer, returns to the witness stand today to answer her husband's divorce suit charges that she shared her affections among too many men. Her husband, Damon Beard, 25, has charged that she was too friendly with other men and testi fied that his suit was a “crue sade against vice.” His attorney, Frank Creeley, called Mrs. Beard to testify yesterday. Mrs. Beard admitted she had accepted the caresses of a friend, identified as a marine, but said she only had kissed him goodby

when he was leaving, “perhaps never to return.”

THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1942

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LOUISE SMITHMEYER FUNERAL TOMORROW

Miss Louise Smithmeyer, a resident of Indianapolis more than 60 years, died yesterday at her home, 3527 Kenwood ave. She was 76. Miss Smithmeyer attended the German Lutheran church and was born at Freelandville, Ind. She is survived by a sister-in-law, Mrs. Ida Smithmeyer, Seattle, Wash; two nephews, Phillip Smithmeyer, Seattle, Wash, and John Smithmeyer, Alaska, and two nieces, Mrs. Mildred Ward, Seattle, and Mrs. ‘{ Alice Beauchamp, Freewater, Ore. Funeral services, conducted by the Rev. Arthur L. Mahr of the First United Lutheran church, will be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill.

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