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Show WASHINGTON FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Patlleship Bombardment Added To Aircraft Bombing Japan, with her cities sticking out on the coast, Is highly vulnerable vulner-able to battleship as well as aircraft air-craft attack. With 10 battleships, each delivering 60 minutes of 16 Inch-gun fire, the same effect can be had as could be had with the bombing power of 10 fleets of B-29s of 255 planes each. One battleship with 9 inch guns of 16 lch caliber will deliver 21,600 pounds of high explosives in one minute of actual firing. 225 B-29s, each carrying 10 tons of bombs, are needed In actual operations to place on a precise target the same weight of explosives that a single battleship can place in 60 minutes of firing. Thus, our first line of defense In the Pacific is sea power. In 1940 we had only l 333 combatant ships. Today wj hivei , 1C0.0O ships of all types a five ocean navy. The great Pacific offensive of-fensive has been won because tnc Navy is a team. Its air army trains the fliers to take orders from flight directors on the decks of ships. Its submarine service destroys millions I of tons of the enemy's shipping. The I Navy has Its own infantry the Mar-I Mar-I lne Corps, trained for amphibious , landings and for assault work; the Marines have a tactical air force of , Its own. Nor must we omit from the last list of services the con-( con-( struction battalion known as the 'Seabees." Hats off to our Navy. |