Show 7 iJ Land-Based Land Bombers Can an Sink en enAny Any Warship Airman Says WASHINGTON Dec 8 Land based P Land based bombers can sink any warship afloat including fast destroyers says Lieutenant Colonel Richard K Carmichael year old commander of the Nineteenth bomber group which has fought through all the south Pacific Carmichael talking at a press conference Tuesday explained that ships find it impossible to escape a pattern of bombs laid across the sea by a group of bombers reg regardless regard regard- rd- rd less of how fast the surface craft might be able to maneuver A boat or a carrier or even a fast destroyer cant can't maneuver from under the pattern he said Of course the faster they are or the higher we fly the more air we have to have Carmichael said that 18 or 19 planes constituted a force sufficient sufficient sufficient to lay patterns about any iny type of craft He told also of one instance where a bomber flew beneath beneath beneath be be- neath low clouds during the last stages of the Milne bay landing to If sink a fast destroyer with a single bomb dropped from 1500 feet He caught her just in the turn turn he said of the bomber pilot who was not identified Asked about the effect of concussion con cony concuss cuss ion when bombing from such sucha a low level he said the result was that the plane seemed plane seemed to be rising about feet a minute Lieutenant Colonel Richard K Carmichael was stationed at Fort Douglas more than thana a year ago ago coming from Hamilton Field Ca Cal with the first conting contingent nt of a a. bombardment bombardment bombardment bom bom- wing A lieutenant when he he arrived here his his- advancement ement has been rapid I |