| Show ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS f National and international pt problem b- b Zeros lem inseparable from local f wel e fare art One of o T the great rat military debates of or modern times has been that concerning eon con caning the relative e of or cr ap and ver l Each eh ot nI o these fighting arms has hall had l convincing con and even cn I fanatical t partisans o The TIa master of land farrare was WM the gr tat German strategist clause witz itz Writing in the tilt days before the airplane cx c he hr argued ed that t the nation the tAl largest t concentration concentration tion thin of nt equipped wll-equipped r ground troops would K bt x the certain victor ictor in war The f German erman Imperial army of I t when was w unquestionably the fn t I the world wf had seen up to then w was wal as largely developed along CIt Clause Clause- II I I wrists wrist's ideas All An remember how it I swept s before it and md seemed secured an n irresistible force until manpower Hr came lne to the thead thead ad ol oi the allies and turned turned turn turn- ed Cd the title tide of or battle The must most able ad advocate of or sea lea power was bras was n an American Captain American Captain 1 who vho also aloo wrote before allone anyone anyone any all one conceived of or warfare in the skies l Italian Mahan believed cd d that th cr would be he the deci deciding factor it in any 10 major war H Hs us writings greatly greatly great great- rat ly Iy impressed Cd Emperor Vilhelm II 11 and led lcd to the he naval n building contest con ran test fest between Germany German and En England 1 The TIle end was victory for the British h t after the battle of or Jutland when tic the c German surface ur ace fleet fled to it its it I If f base ase aset at tt t Kiel and was wa for forthe forthe n r the duration of or the war by hy tic the e British blockade Th The most e supporters supporter c of f were the Italian gen en- en oral Douhet and the American get gen general s eral oral hilly Billy Mitchell Douhet wrote e er that t wars could be he won through r lavish use use of the arm air-arm alone by ty terrorizing whole le wl le nations and and 1 forcin forcing swift internal collapse at a t home The tragic case e of or Mitchell Mitchel 1 is weft known in this country country he he was demoted and finally forced ou out t c of f the army by lIy superior officers officer s who thought his sus claims claim's for the airplane airplane air air- plane were abused The believers in the superiority of a ver to all other forms o of or f I attack have had bad their chance t to o i say sayI told you so 10 since the U S S. Japanese war began When tic the Oklahoma went event down in Pearl liar IIa r IlOr bor l or it was the first time in in history that a a ship of the line in commission commis commis- ion sion had rad 3 been sunk b by an nn airplane e. e Most stunning ning blow of all was tic the c plant plane sinking of the Prince o of t Wales This great warship wa was s One of the very few major fight fight- c mg vessels launched by hy any nation tion n 1 since tile the air bomber bomb r attained re real tl range and attacking capacity Her lie r architects u t considered her practically practical y invulnerable to air attack Yet she slit aln along with the rice an older but fairly modern 1 British battleship hh were vere destroyed and sent sett to the bottom bot lint t tom ool in a l matter mailer of min minutes And aircraft alone were employed by bythe the lice Japanese Inc e in m tl the l r battle which bleb re- re resulted re re- salted in Britain's darkest day ria since Dunkirk Docs DOCi this ibis mean Wrenn that the lice airplane I has hall fin finally a II and for all time demonstrated demon demon- s ted i it its to land power and lIld rapO l The answer in the lice t hl l view of most t authorities is ill No II Fletcher Pratt the A American military mili tary racy e expert tl writing in Life IAfe recent recent- tl sly said Mid N of the major victor ictor i ir irs of this thill war could cO have been ac ae accomplished ae- ae by hy alone Hen Enn in Crete the II air ir victory had to have its preface in the form of aland a aland a aland land invasion ion of Greece which provided pro pro- vided the lice bases hase from which er cr mild could operate The great reat and graphic graphic- lesson of this thi war is this thill The old oM terms Stapo terms land land- have power have IJ no real and detached meaning The three nt tire are now merged 1 ed td in ct might be he termed global I power pourer lower with each service dependent I upon the for other a and 1111 with lr er ah absolutely essential c to them all all allIn In other words I or sea flea power wit without hout strong l air r support are arc under handicaps There lucre were apparently no RAF Rt planes on hand when the Prince of Wales Valeo ent down There here were weer few if any American planes lianes in the air air over o Pearl Plat Harbor when Japan made her attack And to look for a lesson on ona on ona oni i a far hi bigger scale calc ol En England was teas losing the lice war and losing it fast fat until she rhe attained air supremacy above her Isles J In n II the P Pacific we the will need far more Inure planes than c we have hl at It pres pres- tilt ent Japan has hns imitated leading Ger German German man British and American types of aircraft with considerable rahle success SUlee though site she has no gigantic i anlie ships of the lice flying frn treks type nor une for that matter has any an other nation so sn far as lS is known Japans Japan's weakness weak weak- ness according to the best hest a available evidence c is lack o of replacement power It is said her aircraft plants can produce product only ZOO to military mill mili tar tart tary craft a l month Our production is now many times as great and amI is growing fast An eventual e American Ameri Ameri- can producing CH capacity u of six MK six or seven seyen thousand planes a month mantic i is confidently predicted Equally important im ini- we etc have within our own borders all the fuel we nerd need to fI fly them Japan must get her fuel Iud once her reserves arc are used up by con quest To Tn sum up has proved itself to be a fighting fighting- force which bleb must t supplement and back hack up all other kinds hinds of fighting force The range and load capacity of ham bombers bels bel's Io steadily y increases Fi Fighters operate at higher and higher altitudes any and 1 the increase in their power fire-power since the rice war tear began hegan is nothing short of m miraculous America start start- cd ed way behind in the rice battle hattle for air air- l r- r power but hut she is bc beginning t to o catch up now I |
