Show GRASSROOTS I Demonstration of U. S. Air Power Will Ease Unrest By Wright A. Patterson ALL THE PEOPLE of COULD this country have the privilege 1 that of seeing one of the nation's great air fields on which are based America's mighty planes mid of meeting many of the personnel of that It would remove from their as it did from much of the fear of the Red Not only was It my privilege to see the number and size of the nation's great war but I also had the opportunity of and in an Intimate many of the young men who composed their the personnel that can and will provide protection for the American people from any attack a Red enemy may It was the personnel of those that constituted the basis of my confidence in our that removed the fear of any attack on the part of Stalin and his Red that acquaintance did for me it would do for the vast majority of the American could they have the same opportunity I It was an inspiring It was not that I was told In and figures of the ability and of those young radar and radio and for they told me nothing of There was In their conversation nothing of My would be that a y tendency to brag on the part of any one of them would have meant a quick drop from the rolls of the strategic air Nor did their conversations provide me with any Information as to what they were doing or as to where they had been through the day or I knew nothing of tuch or was told of such things they're supposed not to and no member of any crew with whom I was in contact did talk It was only the of I saw who are permitted to talk In fact It was the silence on the part of these young on whom we depend for our that added materially to the confidence I acquired In the ability to protect all America f m any onslaughts of the Red Today I am confident of ability to do that Such are the men the are depending upon for their on subjects on which silence gave me confidence In their ability to protect and all The personnel of those crews were thoughtful young I saw none I could consider a dare devil who would take chances of an air at a county or attempt a needed to win a hotly contested air Their job li to get the utmost from the mammoth machines they to make every gallon of gasoline count on the long flights callea for to reach a to force their great and expensive machines costing more than a million dollars each to the highest possible altitude from which to drop their death laden out of reach of the fighter planes of the Those things and the pin point dropping of their bombs on enemy targets are what they are but the how of such teachings are forbidden subjects of which they did not hut I imbibed from mixing with them the strong Impression that they had mastered their and had to do so If they were to hold their coveted places on the roster of the air command When the day comes the number of them will reach the targets to which they are and most of those who go will come back after dropping their bombs on that Red They are not Just trained to but to fly for a definite and I am confident of their ability to achieve that The young men I and at that one great air and the many hundreds of like them stationed at the many bases of the strategic air represent the force that lies between the American people and that Red enemy they have so greatly It Is a force that Is fully worthy of our We can confidently count upon the protection we so ardently As I met and mixed with ther my fears as would yours could you have the same |