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THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1951
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By JIM G. LUCAS Soripps-Howard Staff Writer
TOKYO, June 28--Chine
se airpower, based just over
the Yalu River in Manchuria “poses a real threat” and the Air Force is “taking steps to counter that threat,” Lt. Gen.
Otto P. Weyland, Far East Air In an exclusive interview, in this theater declared:
Force commander, said today. the new chief of the Air Force
ONE: His fliers have de-| stroyed 402 enemy planes, in-| cluding Russian-made jets. | TWO: If the Chinese commit] their air force to battle with ours “they will loge it.” “However,” Gen. Weyland said, “the maintance of full’ air supremacy by the United Nations is becoming more of a problem.” The general said the Korean war has confirmed the basic concepts of the Air Force as to how a third World War will be fought. If we are forced into an all-out war, Gen. Weyland said, “our effectiveness when the first shot! is fired will be 200 to 300 per cent greater than it would have been if there never had been a war in Korea.”
” o 5 THE AIR FORCE commander| said the Korean war, for one thing, has taught us how to use jet planes in combat. And he added that the Navy and Marine pilots in the Far East “are just as good ag ‘we are.” Gen, Weyland was named only a few weeks ago to succeed Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer as head of the Far East Air Force Previously he had served under Gen, Stratemeyer as deputy for operations, The interview took in Gen. Weyland's second-floor office in downtown Tokyo. I previously had submitted several questions to him and he answered from a sheaf of notes. Ag he talked. Gen. Weyland sat| behind his desk, occasionally lighting a cigaret, sometimes pacing back and forth across the floor. Although he said the basic concepts of the air force generally
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had been confirmed by the Ko-
{rean war, Gen. Weyland said one
of these concepts of how to fight a war “simply was not applicable,” That. was the theory that you hit the enemy at his home base. In this war, he pointed out, the enemy's war potential is “outside North Korea”—in Manchuria. “You don’t dam a river at the
botton of the waterfall,” he said. | “It is easier closer to the source.” |
” - u" GEN. WEYLAND was asked what he considered the major contributions made to the Korean war by the Air Force. He said the most important thing was the way the United Nations attained air sypremacy
{in the beginning.
“If we hadn’t,” he said, “we would have been in a bad way. Even the small North Korean (Communist) air force could have
* Alr Secretary Thomas K. Finletter says theChinese Communists have 1000 planes—most of them Russian- wo built — which R43 could be sent into the Korean Waratany time, What does § this new threat & mean to our fighting forces in Korea? Jit. Gen. Otto P. Weyland, / Far East Air Mr. Lucas Force commander, gives a revealing sizeup of the war in the air today | in a timely and exclusive interview with Seripps-Howard war correspondent Jim G. Lucas. | { |
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| {been very dangerous.
Gen, Weyland sald his head-’ quarters is “acutely aware” of the! way Red China is. building up air| strength in Manchuria and pre-| dicted the air situation may not| long be the “easy show” it is| today. . | “We are taking steps to counter| that threat,” he said. od “Among other things, we are denying them the use of airfields 'in North Korea. Until they can|
hreat in Enemy Air Power " ports under fighter cover.”
maintain air. bases in North Korea, it will be difficult for them to mount an air offensive of more than hit-and-run proportions.” Gen; Weyland said. our handicap of inadequate air bases at the start of the war was overcome by a small group of aviation engineers “who had to do a hell of a lot of improvising.” The fee air bases held by the South Koreans were left over by the Japs and wouldn't stand up under the pounding from our b‘g planes, » »
» ALTHOUGH the Korean war is
different than any ever fought before by the Air Force, Gen. Wey-| land said the Air Force was able to adjust to the new conditions| “almost immediately.” | “When we were given the green!
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light,” he said, “we were bombs on Korea in a matter of hours. Even before that we were evacuating Americans in trans
* “We have learned,” he said,|Alr Force, they'd lose it. “that jets will soak up a lot more|- : flak (anti-aircraft fire) than any-|activity in. North Korea is to gain], one had dared dream. I was sur-/combat experience and to test For several months, all troops|prised. They will take a lot more equipment. But the enemy has a
brought into Korea were brought|y jet noles than any other kind
by air, an average of 500 coming in daily. . “If we had had to wait to get {our transports out of the moth{balls,” the General said, “God {knows when they would have got(ten here. Too late, I imagine.” | Gen. Weyland said the Korean {war has given the Air Force “in{valuable experience at a time {when we are expanding the whole {military structure to meet a much {bigger threat.”
of plane.
“And we have learned a lot about all-weather and night flying. Night flying had always been a weak point with us. We're still not as effective after dark as we would like to be, “We have reduced use of the helicopter to a fine science. We recover 50 per cent of our pilots who go down behind enemy lines,” Asked how he explains the
“ " u GEN. WEYLAND said the Ko-| rean war has shown the Air Force/ how to use jets in combat. =f
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