Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1942 — Page 5
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Writer Says Lesson of Midway Is to Send More Plane-
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More Fast, Heavy Bombers.
By B.J. McQUAID Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.
PEARL HARBOR, T. H., July 2.—The unaccustomed ‘ lull in the battle of the Pacific is generating a debate as unprecedented as it is hopeful. For the first time since the beginning’ of this war somebody on our side is arguing the point of how we won the major engagement, rather than
why we lost it.
It is strictly a family row which, for once, has nothing to do with the tiresome question of planes vs. battleships.
The dispute confines itself to airpower and the disputants are proponents, respectively, of land-based and carrier-
based aircraft. The question is, who did the job at Midway, the army or the navy? The answer usually depends upon the last bloke you talk with and which uniform he wears.
Its Free for All Argument
Your correlpondent has tried to » steer clear of the controversy. but everybody is in it now including a couple of keyhole columnists, who have “experted” the battle from a distance of 6000 miles, which makes it a free-for-all, real “lesson” battle. The battle of Midway is a streamlined, seagoing version of the oldest and most fundamental precept of warfare. Bringing Bedford Forest up to date—‘“get thar the fustest with the mostest airplanes.” Get there, if possible, with all the airplanes you can round up including land-based planes, sea-based planes and planes, if you can get ‘em there, based on the moon. Your correspondent talked at some length with both army and navy pilots, who fought in the battle of Midway, and high-ranking naval and military officers. These officers not only had a share in the planning and direction of the battle but took part in the action.
All Cite Co-ordination
They include, on the navy side, such authorities as an executive officer on a big carrier and.-oge of the ablest airmen of this oe any nation. Amo airmen he telked with are Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale, ~ recently promoted to the command . of the Hawaiian air force, who operated from Midway during the battle. ; Men of this type are not interested in discussions that promote jealousy or ill feeling between the services. Thef emphasize the old, familiar “co-operation and coordination of all available machines and weapons.” > Such co-ordination was present In the battle of Midway to a greater degree than in any previous engagement of this war.
Only Little Ones Escape
Certainly, it was the navy PBY’s that first spotted the Jap invasion force—the poor old PBY’s that nobody likes much, but it was the army fortresses that swung the first punch at the big transports and warships of the invasion fleet and it was either land-based army bomber, or land-based marine divebombers, or both, which got in the first licks at the carriers, battleships and heavy cruisers of the primary attack force. Or was it? Some say the navy staged a highly effective night attack the preceding evening. Whatever happened in those early stages there were plenty of Jap ships afloat—and still headed right for Washington, D. C., where the gossip columnists live — when the navy carrier planes hit them full force on (June 4. There were some left on June 5. There were even a few left on June 6, which the navy calls its . “field day.” That's the day when the carrier boys chased the Japs ' right into the shadows of Wake and reversed traditional procedure by allowing only the littlest ones to get away. Maybe official army and navy reports do not agree, exactly, as to just who sank which ship, but they
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agree on the what and how. Remember, it is apt to be a little confused out. there. You release your freight and watch it land with the tail of your eye and you go away from there. You don't stick around and count heads bobbing in the brine. In this writer's opinion, based on talks with participants, many of the Jap ships were hit again and again within relatively short time intervals by both army and navy pilots and by both land-based and car-rier-based air power. This explains all the conflict and controversy. Every navy man knows, of course, that surface ships must not be sent within range of ‘any considerable quantity of land-based air power. But the Pacific is still a big enough ocean to outrange the biggest bombers. More Carriers Needed
As the production | rate steps up and we begin to get bombers in great numbers, pattern bombing by myriad formations of fast, heavy bombers will begin to replace bombsight bombing. It is hard to see how a surface navy—even carriers— can defend itself against such a thing, given continued expansion of bomber ranges. ‘ But that is for the future. Right now, and for .quite some time to come, American carriers are queens of the mid-Pacific seas and the thing we need most is more of them. The prize prize for the stupidest point raised by sideline critics is the argument that since sea warfare has gone into the air, commanding admirals in all theaters should be replaced by army men. In other words, as soon as our leadership begins ta get results let us throw it out of the window. The obvious fact is that in the Midway action our mid-Pacific united command, headed by an admiral, showed aptitude for organization ang disposal of striking air power which would gladden the hearts of Douhet, Mitchell and probably even De Seversky.
4 NAZI 'GHUTISTS CAUGHT IN TURKEY
ANKARA, Turkey, July 2 (U. P)). Three German parachutists wearing Russian civilian clothes and carrying a two-way radio have landed in northeastern Turkey, near the Soviet border, it was understood on high authority today. The Germans apparently intended to land in Russia. A fourth para-
‘chutist landed on Turkish soil near
Borchka, just across the frontier from Batum. All four were arrested and interned. “That's nothing,” a Soviet source here commented. over the Caucasus from time to time but they don't get very far. of them are anti-Bolshevik emigrees.” The \Germans also have dropped parachutists in. the Middle East, particularly in Palestine near Haifa, for sabotage purposes, it was understood.
MACARTHUR GIVEN "TOP GREEK AWARD
WASHINGTON, July 2 (U. P.).— King George II of Greece has awarded his nation’s highest military honor—the cross of military valor—to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the Greek legation has announced. The citation accompanying the award praised Gen. MacArthur for the “high skill and gallant manner with which he handled the entire Philippine campaign, especially the heroic - defense of Bataan against overwhelming odds” and “in recognition of conspicuous services rendered to the cause of the united nations.”
CHIEFS RE-ELECTED BY SCOTTISH CLANS
CLEVELAND, July 2 (U. P.).— The Royal Order of Scottish clans re-elected all incumbent officers yesterday at the close of its 36th annual convention. : Alex G. McKnight of Duluth, Minn., was renamed royal chief, and William T. Angus, Cleveland, royal tanist.
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HOW THEY TRAI T0 BLAST JAPS!
Tough in Every Way; Work Rigorously.
By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent MELBOURNE, July 2.—Men of the sort who made the allied commando raid on Salamaua are train-
ing day and night, rigorously and|
intensively, at a secret camp for the day when Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces start their offensive against the Japanese in the Southwest Pacific. Recently I visited the camp where
these men eat tough rations, wear a minimum of tough clothes, prac-
tough, talk tough—and are tough. They are learning to aproach and
only in frontal attacks. I have seen them drop from the upper branches of trecs upon the shoulders of an unsuspecting man. Nominated to impersonate an enemy, in their own improved adaptation of the tactics which took the Japanese through Malaya when I covered that front.
Seasonal Soldiers
They are mostly seasoned soldiers, but many are former “bush stationers.” Australians who lived the Ionely, hard life out in the unpopulated areas of this vast continent. Their skin is as leathery and tough as the camel hides on which they sleep. I met at the camp a youthful, weather beaten former bush riding
of his men: . “Some of these coves are so tough they don’t trouble any longer to
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is the credo of bushy eyebrowed aviator-comander and 1. S. navy’s
open their bully beef cans. They eat can and all.” These men carry out all their training on the run. An alarm whistle sounds at 3 or 4 a. m. : Seemingly by telepathy, for it is pitch dark, they follow their. .shad-
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owy leader, plunging headlong down a 20-foot rocky river hank, fording the river sometimes shoulder high. Flinging muddy water spouts, they storm the steep opposite bank, the supposed enemy position, and enthusiastically. stick their bayonets through dummy Japanese.
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NAZIS RESISTED IN CHURCH FIGHT
Bishop of Berlin Warns Against State Usurping Power of Divinity.
STOCKHOLM, July 2 (U. P.).— The bishop of Berlin, Konrad von Presing, warned Germans that “the right which is rooted in God cannot be replaced by right rooted in the state,” a dispatch to the newspaper Dagbladet said today. (The British radio said that the sermon challenged the Nazis openly in their fight against the Catholic church.)
A large crowd cheered the bishop as he arrived and left the church last Sunday, the dispatch said. The crowd gave “three hails for our bishop and three hails for the pope.” History Cited
In his sermon on the occasion of the pope’s 25th anniversary at, St. Hedwigs chygch in Berlin the Bishop said: “Many times in history attempts have been made to create human right but they always ended in arbitrary action. “Real right can only be founded in the principle of do not unto others what you do not want done unto you, and on the holiness of all life—that of the unborn child and that of the disabled old.” (The Nazis have advocated the elimination of the mentally unfit in certain circumstances and it has been estimated that more than 30,000 persons so classified have been put to death.) The bishop said that “it is a fatal mistake to believe that the state is
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the highest revelation of divinity.”
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run into money. Nurses Not So Costly
WAAC — “private” $255.68 for initial outfit and a year's maintenance. . Ee Not even army nurses, albeit of clothe, The government spends only
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last year. Its output was 21,697,000 pounds. ;
$122.21. enlisted sailor—$118.95,
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