Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1942 — Page 20
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“After Day the Allied Planes Drone ‘Over Waters
Which Subs Must Use to Reach
Their Hunting Grounds.
BY WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
A COASTAL COMMAND STATION, SOMEWHERE N ENGLAND, Sept. 9.—The Battle of the Bay has now Yeached a crescendo and its result will be felt over the seven Beas.
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They Fought Japs Before | Pearl. Harbor, AN "EAST COAST PORT, Sept
i119 (U. P).~A contingent of Amer-|!
ican volunteer group fliers arriving! here from the far east told here how they shot: down Japanese zero fighter planes in -air battles with
i odds as. great as. 10-to-1 aesiast
Down in the Bay of Biscay and in the air above it thelj
RAF, the luftwaffe and the German U-boat fleet are locked]
dn a rip-roaring fight to the finish.
The RAF has carried the battle of the: Atlantic right]
home to the Germans by sending strong and endless streams of flying boats and bombers down to the waters through ‘which German U-boats must pass on their way to the Atfantic and the Caribbean from their bases at Bordeaux,
_ Lorient and Brest. : Day after day, they have
multi-cannon Beaufighters: to prey on the Focke-Wulfs and the German Bpotted Germans and plastered cannon-fighters.. And so it goes, a with bombs and depth Seaseless succession of weapons and nd counter-weapons. ges, sinking many a It is now a rough-and-tumble battle without quarter, in which "The momentum of this at-|U-boats, the RAF and the Luftwaffe
all are giving and taking the hardtack may be judged by the est kind of knocks, So far the RAF
fact that one Australian fly-|is pretty well on top. ing boat squadron alone has| Australians, manning 25-ton Sundelivered 110 attacks on|derland flying boats, have been in
the thick of the Battle of the Bay. U-boats since July 1 and has from the beginning. Thus, while
. had action on all out seven|american fighting forces are en-
gaged in protecting Australia’s front door, the tough sons of that country are paying us back by striking at our enemy before he'can get into
days since that date. ’ Most of this action, if not all, has _pecurred in the Bay of Biscay, the greatest U-boat hunting ground of all time where every U-boat op-| °F back door. ‘erating from French bases is “on| They are doing a magnificent job the spot” for many hours as it with limited means and on occasion
heads outward toward its own hunt-| they pay heavily for it. grounds, or homeward toward It is something to wonder at that base. both the Australians and their col-
leagues in the British and CanaGermans Mass Fighters dian air forces are doing this job
To this the Germans have re-| with some planes, types of which faligted by massing a: force of| have been in use since the beginning Focke-Wulf four-motored - bombers, | of the war. ¢annon-firing Arado seaplanes,| As the Battle of the Bay is now Heinkel-115’s and Junkers-88’s 1o| the most violent phase of the whole chase the RAF from Biscay skies.| pattle of the Atlantic, with the odds Then, in turn, the RAF has sent|on our side, it would be natural for
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The Australian pilots fly Sunderlands, the same planes which were being used for eonvoy patrol at the beginning of the war when there was small chance of opposition in the air. The Sunderland is a fine, sturdy boat, but it is primarily a reconnaissance plane and certainly in its present form it is not ideal for combat against modern attack planes. It makes about 200 miles per hour and its defensive armament consists of .303 machine guns. These guns have a range of about 400 yards and the Sunaerlands are called upop to engage fighters which have cannons effective up to 800 yards or better.
Aussies Not Sissies
The Australians are no sissies and they have acquired a lot of skill and, with this combination of guns and brains, they. are able to take on the enemy with considerable success. The other day one Sunderland crew knocked down one of the three Arados which attacked it, sent another bouncing along the waves and made the last beat it for home. But it was a close call and other similar engagements not so successful. The point is that pilots entrusted with a . job which may help make or break the battle of the Atlantic, are being compelled to do it with something which could be improved. ( British and Canadian units have OPEN Eves. i joined the Battle of the Bay with
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The answer to the present situa.
tion undoubtedly is to be found in
the fact that the powers that be|
are still primarily concerned with bombing Germany to blazes and are loathe to part with any of the great, four-motored, high-speed and heav-ily-armed aircraft which have been designed to assist in that job. This correspondent would like to make two suggestions aimed at giving us a permanent and definite advantage: in the Battle of the Bay. First, the present coastal command crews are specialists at their jobs and can be trusted to raise real hell with German U-boats if given every available chance.
Recommends Armament
In this correspondent's view, they should be given better protection on their hazardous job by having heavier armament mounted in those of their present aircraft which they eontinue to: operate. , .. In the second place, the Battle of the Bay is so vitally important for us that the very best aircraft
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Lieut. John James Powers, New York ay (above), was the navy pilet ~ ogized : in . President Rane s radio address. He was awarded the congressional medal of honor: for dive bombing Japanese ships in the Coral sea. He died in the final attack on a
Turn Tables on
Confidence Man
CHICAGO, Sept. 9 (U.P.)—U.
S. Marshal William H. McDonnell
looked skeptical when Joseph R. (Yellow Kid) Weil, old-time confidence man, claimed the govern-
ment had cheated him out:of $10.
Weil, now awaiting trial ‘on a new confidence ‘charge, protested that Atlanta penitentiary authorities failed -to.give him his $10 gratuity” when: they released him after his last stretch. Marshal McDonnell said yesterday that he checked the story and-learned the “Kid” was right.’ Weil, a frequent visitor to police courts on: “rubber check” charges, had only one comment to make when he picked ‘up the government’s check: “I wonder who'll- cash: this: for
should be devoted to it. Lancasters,|
The famed" “iging tigers,” num bering several score, modestly. related their - deeds, ‘which played a major role in keeping the Burma road open for months to maintain the flow of supplies to the Chinese armies.
Fighting . almost continually against a numerically superior foe, the AVG pilots revealed that, long before Pearl Harbor, they = were
lbusy destroying Japanese planes in
high-altitude dog-fights and in raids ‘on enemy airdromes, All praised the performance of ‘their American Tomahawk and Curtiss P-40s against the fast, maneuverable zeros.
He Gets 11 Planes
“Typical of the group was William Reed, 25, of Marion, Iowa, who destroyed 11 Japanese’ planes.
Another of the pilots, ' Curtis Smith, of Augusta, Ga. a former captain in the marine corps, told of a “Christmas present” raid by 50 Japanese planes on: the. Toungoo airport. He complained: “we didn’t do so‘ well” because only eight enemy planes were shot down. Other pilots in the party were Robert Smith, of Eagle River, Wis.; ‘Matthew * Kuykendall, San . Saba, Tex.: Frank Lawlor, Coronado, Cal: and Freeman. Ricketts, Walnut Creek, Cal. A number. of ground crew men and mechanics were among the arrivals.
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