Show Defend big the canal TIR ton alf war department ii 1 going gouig to blend 1 I on a flying field at the entrance to the a ma canal I 1 chii his 11 a recognition of the fact that the real deaun de tun nf nt the th heinl anal he 4 in tit the air anti not in ill the huge 16 inc int runt guns mounted on the dhori not jet el in lie the hillion doll doehr ir nivy it lit ahio h so many pice our rd rel ance general mitchell bell slid s ild that in most positive language before he was dismissed f from rom the oe army tor for b ng ing too candid with the truth cua cu us a xio matter how large their calibre nor how fer fr r they hoot can call make no defense ave save against direct attack within range of 0 their Fili shells ells like wise the navy can malm make no defense save against other ship within of their glins one willell e placed bomb from an airplane would top stop me use of the canal and anti airplane ii do not hax limp to come within reach of et etther t her the chipi or file he I 1 nd ind defenses the they can fly fron any hasp bae the ariti aing limit of heir their fuel capacity the only detente defense against them ill 14 a rup bior fleet of planet that can prevent them from reaching the ranal canal from any apy direction that mean more plan planed on like defensive bide than 1 ill I 1 a pa 1 a for one otte plane slipping through the line of 0 defense might rum ruin the canal the name principle applies in lit all our mir coast dc de benge Ws we have fort forta with luige huge auni and wo we even have runs gulls mounted nil nix cari cars to ruti along the coast by loy rail to points of danger janger but nil all of them arc are hell help lew lei against by air at undefended points of willett of course there are arany more wore than defend ed ones we arc are rapidly becoming Le comins Air 11 that was hot the eafe when nhen mitchell sounded hia ills warning and was wits cashiered for it we know kno now that he sanke the he truth and that old defense ine thodi 1 arn obsolete if it we arc are attacked attai ked at oil all tit the it will be through the ile air and it is in the ili air at th 11 it we ill must meet it and as defense requires many more planed than attack a e need to lo be 10 well writ equipped with them and men to them |