Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1942 — Page 9

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MONDAY, AUG. 3, 1942

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Aug. 3.—Nuw we start

with the United States army of Northern Ireland.

There is a lot of it, and it is scattered all over the / Place. The army has graciously provided me with a peep and a driver, and I am free to go anywhere I please. So I'm spending four days each week with the troops, all over Northern Ireland, oné night in one camp and the next night in another. Most of the time I live and eat with the enlisted ‘men rather than the of=ficers. At the end of four days [ come back to Belfast with my head full ot stuff and sit for three days holed up in a hotel room writing the pieces I've gathered, " ‘ Then when I've got everything down on paper and sent it off to America, I blow a bugle, summon the trusty peep, and go snorting out over the countryside again. Remember, you can drive clear across Northern Ireland in three hours. All the columns in the next few weeks will have to be rather generalized. Only now and then can I write about an individual specifically, and never about a certain group specifically. But through it all, and despite the generalizations, I think I can eventually draw you an honest picture of what life is like for these boys over here who form the vanguard of a great expeditionary force that is building up in this part of the world.

‘Another Eccentric General!

THE QUESTION MOST frequently asked me is hy I'm not wearing a correspondent’s uniform. The nswer is that the war department gives two types of accrediting to newspapermen, One permits the correspondent to rove around, and this one does not require a uniform. I chose this type deliberately so I could be free to circulate. Also, it’s nice not to have

. PROBABLY THE STATE'S leading conserver. ot rubber is white-haired Isaac Kane Parks, state inheritance tax commissioner. He's driving his 1940 model Ford “60” with all five original tires. They

have 78,800 miles on them and are good for 6000

or 7000 miles before they'll need recapping. Two of the tires have never been off the rim. Actually Mr. Parks’ tire saving is merely a sideline to his real hobby of getting gasoline mileage. He drives all over the state, and is paid mileage, so he keeps books on his car. In April he averaged 30 miles a gallon. In August, 1941, it was 32.45 miles a gallon, He rotates his tires every 4000 miles, used to hold his speed down to 45 and 50; now limits himself to between 35 and 40. Hq never “guns” his car uphill, or on the takeoff, never slams on the brakes or scrapes a curb. And he doesn’t drive more than 35 miles an hour against a head wind—to save both tires and gas. Some time ago the office of emergency management, in Washington, wrote asking if he’d pose for a news reel. He wrote back he’d be tickled, but nothing has happened yet. .

Worth Weight in Gold

..AN ARMORED CAR of the money-cartying type stood in front of the I. O. O. F. building entrance the other day. Out of the building came two uniformed guards carrying—iwo tires. You ‘should have heard the spectators laugh. . . . An inbound North side bus came to a traffic’ signal during the rush hour and because of the long lineup of cars

) ahead, had to sit through one green light. When the

light turned green again, a man stepped up to the rear exit and rang the buzzer. The operator stopped, the door opened, the man spit out a mouthful of

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to spend $300 on a uniform when I'm not really soldier. Despite my civilian clothes, I've been getting saluted all over Ireland. That's because I ride around in an army peep and wear an officer's-type trenchcoat that 1 got in London last year. Sentries and soldiers along the road, apparently think my dilapidated civilian hat is just the whim of some eccentric| general, so they take no chances and salute themselves to death. Naturally, I don’t know what procedure to follow

in return, so I usually just wave and yell, “Howzit, ;

kid?” You Spendthrift, Pyle!

ACTUALLY I BELIEVE I get along better not being in uniform, bunking around with enlisted men as I do. An officer's uniform would scare them and put them on guard, and I couldn't lie around half the night shooting the bull with them. As it is, they seem to feel that I'm just another old broken-down guy from home and sort of a sight for sore eyes. The other night I fell in with a group of sergeants at one camp just as they were starting uptown to see a movie. I said, “I'll go along if it won’t be interfering with your plans.” And one of them said, “Good Lord no! We're s0 glad to see an American in civilian clothes we wish you'd just stay with us all the time.” These columns go from here to London in a sealed army pouch, and are transmitted from there to New York by wireless, as we old continentais call it. And I might add it is costing the office a pretty penny, so you'd better read every column twice. Now that I've used up the day letting you in on all my family secrets I will get to bed and try to get on with my business tomorrow. As an afterthought, Irish beds are wonderful. They are tall, deep and even in the summertime they have enough covers to crush a mastodon. I can at least keep warm in bed over here.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

tobacco juice (without getting off) and then sat down again. The bus missed another green light and the other passengers snickered.

Wanted—A Check Casher

RALPH CANTER JR. wants to know why someone doesn't do something about getting a bank or two to stay open maybe one evening a week to cash checks. Sez he: With so many working six or seven days a week—eight to 10 hours a day-—it’s becoming difficult to cash a check. Merchants have a habit of saying “no.” The other evening it took Ralph 45 minutes to find a place to cash his check. Besides the accommodation, it would probably result in. savings accounts being built sup, thus reducing the trend toward inflation. Any banks want to volunteer? . . . The Rose Tire Co. still is putting out match books advertising: “Free—brand new Miller inner tube with the purchase of two tires.” Don't crowd, boys. Get in line. . . Dewitt Brown gets around the sugar rationing by carrying a bottle of saccharine tablets.

Around the Town

THERE'S A SIGN up on N. Delaware st. next door to the Indianapolis Hebrew Temple advertising the H. H. Woodsmall Co. It says: “We insure everything but the hereafter.” And we know one very dignified clergyman who has great difficulty in restraining himself from chalking the added nota“For ‘the Rereafter, apply next door.” . . Overheard outside a drug store: “Nope, I'm broke.

1-was driving brother’s car last night and had to

get some gas. ‘I told the man ‘a dime’s worth’ and he didn’t hear me right and put in a dollar's worth. That was all I had.” . . . They've modernized the old traction terminal (now the bus ferminal) by having the announcer introduce busses on “Lane 9" instead of “Track 9.” But they haven't done anything about the announcer’s delivery. You still can’t make out what he’s saying. '

Raymond Clapper has been on vacation.

His column resumes tomorrow.

Get Tough!

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Probably nothing in all

their American experience has so amazed foreign envoys here as the trial of the eight Nazis. They simply do not understand it. They do understand, of course, the American spirit of fair play—even when it concerns the most detestable type of enemy. That is most highly praised. But there is concern lest the publicity and delay attending the case result in adding to the nation’s peril from espionage and sabotage. ; The practice outside the United States has always been a speedy trial in wartime and prompt execution of sentence—without benefit of press, radio, or newsreel. It is the rule even in England, whose gna Charta was the foundation of our own se ghts, habeas corpus and all. ' While every safeguard should be thrown about, the absolute justice of such trials, there is real reason for both promptness and secrecy. John Doe, let us say, is sent into wartime Germany or the occupied countries on a mission for the United States. And nothing is ever heard of him again. He simply disappears. Nobody knows when, where, how or why. His colleagues know that something unpleasant has happened to him,

The Unknown Is Frightening

IT IS PARTICULARLY unnerving to John Doe's co-workers. And it requires rare nerve for them to carry out orders to follow in his dangerous tracks. ‘They do so without having the slightest idea what dangers they have to guard against, and they would give a good deal to know for certain just

what happened. It is axiomatic that the unknown is more right-

HYDE PARK, N. Y,, Sunday—On Friday night I again took some young navy men to see the show, “This Is the Army.” There are not many shows you can see a second time, and enjoy them as much as the first time. But I can honestly say in this case, that I had a good time myself, which was enhanced by watching my guests enjoy themselves. On Saturday morning, I left the train at Beacon, N. Y., so as to have a swim and lunch with Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau. [ was home by three o'clock, and we had quite a number of guests : for supper. . Today there are guests again for lunch and supper, _ but on the whole, the day is quiet, which the gray sky perhaps accentuates. Not even a leaf is stirring outside now,

and the purple fre-Weed slong Sut Sook which

-than has been permitted heretofore.

relief to th

By Wm. Philip Simms

ening than the known—however horrible. Publicity prevents other spies from being caught under similar circumstances. For example: The eight agents now on trial here offered bribe-money to the young Coast Guardsman who caught them red-handed. He let them think they got away with it. Today the whole world—including Germany— has been told how they failed. The next time. no spy will try that ruse. If caught, he will blow the guardsman’s brains out, if he can, and make a getaway. Foreign observers think it strange that after more than 160 years of history and seven major wars, the United States is still uncertain with regard to spy. procedure.

This Is a Tough War—

FIRST, THEY SAY, the entire United States and all its possessions should be declared a war zone for the. duration. For that is what it is in this day of 400-mile-an-hour death from the sky. A spy in Detroit, Mobile, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh or Alaska, or in white-tie-and-tails in a New York . night club, may be engaged on a job which, if it succeeded, ‘would mean a defeat for the united nations. In Europe, a spy does not have to be caught in no-man’s-land. They may pick him up with a pretty girl at Maxim’s and shoot him at the next dawn. Second, it is felt that no doubt should be left that a naturalized citizen, if convicted of spying or sabotage, automatically losses his citizenship and hence can be treated like any other foreign agent. Third, it is pointed out that closed espionage trials make it possible to uncover information of paramount importance in tracking down other spies and saboteurs. In general, foreign observers privately remark that this is a tough war—the toughest the United States or any other country every engaged in— and that it is high time we were getting tough, too.

By Eleanor Roosevelt)

blue, and the birds were chirping everywhere, but now it looks as though nature were waiting for the rain to come, or for the wind to blow. I have just received an appeal from the Greek War Relief association. They have finally been authorized to send food to Greece in larger amounts : They need ‘money, and they will need it continuously, as long as it is possible to send food there, where starvation has been prevalent during the last few months.

Perhaps families all over this country who are able} to do so, will save a little on their own food budgets|

every week, and put those savings into a fund, to

be forwarded once & month to the Greek War Relief |

association. i The gallant fight which Gresce put up, first agatnst the Italians, and then against the Germans, Semin delayed the attack on Russia, and there Greek soldiers, sailors, and fliers who their country and are fighting. il

‘By Ernie Pyle

PLANES CRASH AND FLY AGAIN

Repair - Salvage Unit Has - Narrow Escapes But

Fine Record.

By RICHARD MOWRER

aT Aug. 3.—Pending the hoped-for arrival in the Middle

ments in men, tanks, guns and air-

repair of damaged material has come into prominence as part of the

ly true of aircraft. It is generally acknowledged that

big reason why Gen. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s army has lost the impetus to smash through the last 50 miles to Alexandria. It is not generally known, however, what proportions of the planes which held up the enemy’s advance

four or five planes salvaged fromthe desert battlefield by the Royal air force’s recovery and salvage unit. It is unofficially estimated that 75 per cent of the. crashed planes scooped up by salvage crews, often under fire, have flown and fought again. One fighter plane is reputed to have been shot down, salvaged and rebuilt from bits and pieces of their wrecks no less than five different times. On paper the repair and salvage unit is organized to operate thus: A report comes in that ‘an aircraft has come down. The pinpoint map reference of the crash is given. A crash inspector immediately hops into ‘a jeep and maybe takes ga truck along and goes to the map reference given, looks over the plane and decides whether it is salvageable or must be written off. If repair-

able, he decides whether it can be

repaired on the spot and flown off. If he has time, he takes. off the plane’s wireless and maybe the guns or smaller fittings.

Chased Off Tank

Recently crash inspectors have been equipped with wireless sets. If the crashed plane can be salvaged a crane-and-trailer crew sets out to pick up and bring back the plane. Normally the salvage crew dismantles the plane on the spot. Since the retreat from Gambut, however, the salvage crews have not been able to do this very often. Once, in the days when the desert

ting down a crashed plane's landing gear and hoisting up the tail so they could tow it. They were going along at four miles per hour when they noticed a couple of vehicles coming up back of them, The vehicles turned out to be a German tank and armored car. At 200 yards they opened up fire. The salvage men tumbled. out of the cab of the crane and frantically began to unhitch the plane to make a getaway. The tank and armored car turned around and beat it — apparently they thought the men were going to fire the plane’s guns at them.

. 15 Captured, Escape

The R. S. U. are always the last to leave an airdrome when it is being evacuated because it is their job to pick up leftovers. Sometimes they do not get away in time. At the time of the beginning of the retreat to Egypt 15 R. 8S. U. men were captured at El Adem and their equipment seized by the Germans but in the confusion they managed to escape. Once three trailers and their crews were surprised by the advancing enemy on a pipeling track, 30 miles south of Sidi Barrani. The enemy fired. The driver’ of the first truck rolled out of his cab, dead—and his truck caught fire. The other two vehicles turned around and escaped. The R. S. U. men make it a point of honor to always get their plane and this they usually do or die in the attempt. One time one of the R. 8. U's crack plane retrievers, with a record of always coming back with his plane, was sent out. A retreat was on. Time passed and the retriever did not come back. Others at the base became worried because the Germans were advancing. Finally they sent a plane out to look for him. The plane located their man just 10. miles gway trundling along homeward with two trailers and two planes. Once a salvage crew ventured into no-man’s-land to salvage a fighter plane. Machine guns opened up on|cuss them. Luckily slit trenches were near and the men took shelter. Then Stukas came and bombed them. But in the night the R. S. U. men got the guns off the plane, even if they did not succeed in taking away the machine itself.

HOLD EVERYTHING

men of the united nations. It

IN DESERT WAR|

East soon of substantial reinforce-| :

craft, the business of recovery andj

big fight. Of late this is particular-

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the Middle East air forces are one| :

were rebuilt machines—rebuilt from | &

Soe SECTION

The picto-diagram, above, picturing the new “sawed-off 75” depth charge gun in operation, shows how its range contrasts with the comparatively short range. of the currently used “Y”-gun. Cutaway

diagram inset shows how! gun is sunk below deck surface of cargo ship.

SAY NEW ‘CON 1S SUB ANSWER

Inventors Would | Make Every Merchant Ship a U-Boat Death Trap.

NEW YORK, Aug. 3-—he axis U-boat menace could be relieved within a month, said two liew York industrial designers, if cz 130 ships could be armed with depth: charges. So they have invented a 1n:w weapon which they believe will do just that.

The device, designed & Jacques Martial and Robert C. Scull, is a depth bomb gun which could hurl 80 or more pounds of THT up to 1000 yards. The -hurling mechanism itself is simply the [‘arrel of a T5-mm. gun which has been shortened and from wich the rifling has been removed. | Attached to the depth bomb is & stud, or handle that fits into the gin barrel w| for firing.

Hidden Below Deck

The gun is mounted on a swivel mechanism which is countersunk in the deck of a merchant ship. This makes the weapon invisible to submarines, just as were the guns of the first World War's Q-boats, which played such havoc with the German submarines. Present depth charge \hrowers, or Y-guns, hurl their explosives only about 50 to 100 yar¢ls. This makes them not only useicss to a slow-moving = cargo ship, which could never get near enou:zh to a sub to sink it, but actually a liability, since depth charges, exploding so near, could spring tie merchant ship’s own plates. With their new weapon, say Martial and Scull, merchant sailors could destroy a submaririz even after their cargo ship had licen torpedoed and was sinking. ||

Forces Use of Torpedo:s

In addition, they claim two advantages for their weapon. At present, Nazi submarines can save their hard-to-replage torpedoes »y surfacing and using deck guns to attack merchant ships that appear unarmed. Once the Germans found out that U. S. cargo ships were armed with this hidden weapon, they would have to rely op torpedoes every time. In the second place, in Leder to stay out of range of th: bomb thrower, submarines would have to fire torpedoes at more than 1000 yards—a distance at which gocuracy is not very high. The designers have placed their invention in the hands of [4 senatorial committee.

KIWANIS STUDIES DEFENSE ‘Home defense will be the theme of the Kiwanis luncheon \7ednesday at the Columbia club, Charles Gregory, battalion chief of the Indianapolis fire department, will dis- , “How to Save Your Home in an Air Raid.”

Sailors to Have Mounted Division

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (U. P.). —The coast guard is going to have its horse marines. It announced today that it is seeking horsemen living near Atlantic or gulf 'coast shore lines for its newly organized mounted beach patrol. Volunteers will be enrolled in the temporary reserve,

instructed . in their duties and provided with arms and uniforms, The coast guard also is asking horse owners who can’t join the patrols to make their mounts available to the service for riders who can. The owners must provide harness and saddles.

YANKS IN CHINA LASH JAP FLIERS

Take Heavy Toll of Planes; Bombing of Hongkong Is Reported.

CHUNGKING, China, Aug: 3 (U. P.).—The heavy bombing of ! Japanese headquarters at Linchuan today by United States planes followed a week of brilliant flying by the Americans, who fought off enemy efforts to knock out the army air force in China. The scgte for the week ending

JAPANESE LOSSES: 17 confirmed /destroyed, four probably destroyed, at least 10 heavily damaged. AMERICAN LOSSES: One fighter plane, the pilot of which was

saved. Battles Rage for Week

The American airmen have broken the back of an elite force of Japanese bombers and fighters assembled for the sole purpose of driving them out of China, a communique from the headquarters of Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell indicated. There was still no confirmation from Stillwell’s headquarters, but well - informed American sources understood that a Chinese newspaper’'s account of United States air raids on Hongkong were authentic.

Claim Hongkong Bombed

They said that the Hongkong raids, which supposedly took place July 11, 12 and 26, had established United States air supremacy over the port and reduced its importance as one of the chief transportation centers for Japanese forces in the South China sea. : The naval dockyard where the Japanese were repairing scuttled British ships was said to have been the chief target of the American airmen.

ASSAILS U. S. ‘MOTIF OF FEAR’

Dean Ackerman Charges Conflicting Reports Only

Confuse People.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 (U. P.. —Dr. Carl W. Ackerman, dean of Columbia university’s graduate school of journalism, said today the government was “confusing and worrying” the American people through contradictory propaganda. Dr. Ackerman, in Los Angeles on a business trip, denounced what he

called the government's “motif of fear” in its propaganda efforts, and said the people were becoming highly confused over the “defeatist attitude of much of our propaganda.” “At every turn we face the fear of emotion, the danger of defeat, of invasion of Nazi domination, of lack of rubber and other essentials,” Dr. Ackerman said. “I wonder why the government doesn’t realize that Americans can be inspired to vastly greater and heroic efforts by faith. This fear angle can be overplayed like the boy who called ‘Wolf!’

Press Draws Praise

The educator said he believed that at present there was a confused feeling of ‘absence of a war leadership among Americans, and pointed :- to the “obvious confusion in the administration of the war effort as revealed by the mass of contradictory information flowing out of Washington.” Dr. Ackerman praised American newspapers and press associations for the “admirable job they are doing in operating between censorship at the source and sniping by certain government officials. “Newspapers are recording the anxiety, the confusion, the lack of confidence, the mistakes as well as the achievements,” he said.

GREENBACK PARTY -ANNOUNGES SLATE

» The Greenback party today announced the following state ticket to be offered at the November elections: Frank Jefferies of South Bend, secretary of state; Francis X. 'Walter of Indianapolis, attorney general; William H. Edwards of Spencer, auditor; W. E, Yeater of New Paris, treasurer; A. J. Garretson of Anderson, clerk of the supreme and appellate court, and Mrs. Edith M. Thompson of Indianapolis, superintendent of public instruction. Chester A. Perkins of South Bend was recommended for third district congressman and John R. Gabbard of Indianapolis was nominated for 11th district congressman. A state rally is to be held here in September.

Wild Cossecks, Charging With Sabers, Lead Russ Counter-Attacks Against Nazis

By HENRY SHAPIE) . United Press Staff Corresion dent MOSCOW, Aug. 3.—Marshal Se-

|myon Timoshenko’s famous Don | [Cossacks were leading fier)

Russian counter-attacks today 'in the

Don river fighting. As the thousands of Coss:.cks at-

{tacked with.sabers under = terrific

bombardment by Russian fied guns,

{clouds of Stormovik dive ‘hombers

and even heavy long-range ‘hombers were thrown into a sudden heavy

Y [attack on the tanks and mctorized ‘ |infantry columns pressing up to ‘the {lines from the German rear.

The Cossacks killed 1500 Ciermans in one sector, the noon eo: unique

on the Gerri rein-

oe Indicated that iarshal|

that- strong forces of heavy tanks were moving to the front. Pravda, official organ of the Communist party, made a new appeal to the Red army forces to stand fast. Pravda, pointing out that the Germans were strong in tanks and planes, said: “But our country is giving its troops more and more tanks, planes, cannon, mine throwers and muni‘tions. We must know how to use their powerful weapons to the very end and organize co-operation of all services in order to inflict the most powerful blow at the enemy. The Germans are not as strong or as fearful as panic mongers believe.” Dispatches yesterday of the official news agency Tass from various fronts, ranging from Kalinin north-

dropped behind Russian lines constantly to reconnoiter and cut com-

munications, usually working with parachutists. ; Responsible quarters, denying reports that any of the diversionists were fifth columnists, emphasized that Russia wiped out its fifth col-

TROOPS LEARN

HOW TO WRECK IAXIS PROPERTY

Handpicked Paratroopers ‘Trained in Art of

Destruction.

. By DAVENPORT STEWARD Cimes Special Writer FT. BENNING Ga., Aug. ‘3. — Every two weeks here, Uncle Sam turns out a bunch of expert smasher-uppers, whose main aim in life right now is a bull-in-a-china-shop role somewhere in axis territory. They .are hand-picked paratroopers, trained at the parachute school of the airborne command in every destructive technique possible, from blasting waterworks and hydroelectric plants to driving off and wrecking any . locomotives they might run across in the course of minutely planned forays behind the enemy lines, The “little red schoolhouse” where these demolition demons are taught how to give the enemy the “breaks” he doesn't want is an unfinished board building near Lawson field. The classes are in charge of tall, amiable First Lieutenant Ray O. Phillips, one-time Oklahoma rancher.

Learn Use of Explosives

Each regiment of U. S. paratroopers includes a plataon of Lieut. Phillips’ graduates. One of these men can destroy or damage any sort of machinery in a matter of minutes as the result of his special training. Only a handful, not the whole platoon, would be told to accompany one or more companies of paratroopers on any particular mission in tHe enemy’s rear. Trained in the use of TNT, dynamite and nitro-starch, the men are equipped with compact kits, with explosives accounting for half their weight. They jump wearing the kits. Squads are kept busy building bridges and houses for the classes to demolish. Lieut. Phillips takes his men on tours of telephone exchanges, hydroelectric plants, waterworks, radio stations and the like, and on these trips they are shown the vulnerable spots. Not only are they taught to blast plants out of existence, but also to temporarily decommission them. "There's no point in ruining something that will come in handy*when our own supporting troops move into the sector.

Taught in Sabotage

They are taught to sabotage airplanes and airports, to start motor vehicles without benefit of keys, to

motorboats. . They learn the weak spots of every piece of machinery, so that they can wreak quick destruction or fix things so that the enemy himself will destroy his equipment. Their knowledge of tumbling will come in handy whenever they swarm aboard a locomotive, toss the engineer and firemen on their respective ears for good, open the throttle wide and start the train hurtling toward destruction before they jump off. The course lasts only two weeks, but from 8 a. m. until 5 p. m. six days a week they move steadily from class to demonstration to tour of industrial sections and back to class for more academic knowledge in the science of sabotage. ; Significantly, the curriculum in=cludes no instructions in taking prisoners ‘while on a mission of destruction.

DEARBORN COUNTY GROUP WILL MEET

Past presidents of the Dearborn county association will be ‘honored next Sunday at the 51st annual ‘reunion at 2 p. m. in the Community house, Brookside park. Speakers will be Mrs. Ruth Krofft Holman, Mrs. Alma Steinmetz and Dr. O. 8. Jaquith. Robert L. Jack= son is president and Miss Grace P Hargitt is secretary.

WAR BONDS

It is imperative that the ship lanes be kept free of ice. With American troops occupying Iceland and the navy using the northern route for transportation of supplies to Russia, ice breakeers are essential to naval operations. The ice breaker is a specially constructed ship with heavily ‘armored bows and powerful engines that crush the ice floes rather than ram through them.

umnists long before the war with|

the exception of those in the Ger-man-speaking Volga republic who were moved eastward a year ago for re-settlement.

Reviewing air activities for the|-

week, Russia reported that between July 26 and Aug. 1, 286 German planes were destroyed for a loss of 201 Russian planes. Russian planes destroyed or damaged 38 German tanks, 300 troop trucks, 40, ammunition carts, three fuel-tank

trucks, silenced 11 field and anti-|

aircraft batteries, blew up a muni-

tions dump, wrecked two railroad] w | trains, sank ; :

drive tanks, locomotives, ferries and