Show america kni erica G girds ards for still greater effort A As S pearl harbor annever anniversary sary nears of outstanding edgag engagements e ments of A review r 0 Z our Count rys first year at war by CHARLES A ato abr is newspaper v union i with the approach of Do december cember 7 the date oi of infamy work to everywhere will reafa reaffirm irm their determination americans little time in a and spend the war fight and sacrifice to win overall no attempt will be made here to given an retrospect this fateful year but rather picture of what has happened during soldiers battles ui in which american ft a review of some of the great ailers marines and fliers have been engaged without difficulty we recall ma that fateful sunday afternoon when over a radio suddenly gone wild te the shocking king and it bewildering reports re is came m pearl harbor herb had ad been attacked attack ed I 1 pe people pla could on id hardly believe behave it but it was true the next st day the united states declared var v ar or on G japan and on december b 16 war 71 7 1 was declared on an japan s partners P artner in gr crime mv germany and italy S since then many thousands thousand ean of brave american bivs has have been b wrapped w ap pp d in the flag they loved or have found a last testing resting place beneath the ocean a s swell 11 these men an h have ove alim the pages of american A ica history with deeds as bright as the orange flash of a cruisers guns fall of bake H ake inland all ali will ill remember with reverence the e epic I 1 of wake island when a handful of U S marines marooned on a tiny atoll in the southwest 8 on t hwe mgt N pacific to made ad h history bory in c courage on this thin ms occasion G a heroic anar garrison of less than marmes marines defended wake island against g at a powerful japanese attacking force fare from december e r 2 to 22 until houll they were overwhelmed by sheer numbers rith iab a few outdated out dated planes plane and 4 a gun go or 1 two our a boys sank seven ve A jp jap warships wa lupa one me cruiser four its de one submarine and one gunboat fau F 1 B I of bataan the next staggering shock of the war was the fall of manila and the U S naval base of cavite in the philippines america took heart though when it learned of the magnificent ent defense which was put up by U S and filipeo fil pro tn troops III in the he em rugged ad re terrain IT of bataan lim peninsula sula under the leadership of gen douglas macarthur A As it was impossible P a to get reinforcements rea re A neema through r th the japanese naval blockade of th the philippines bataan appeared appealed doomed we recall that in bataan a darkest hour macarthur was we spirited out at of the islands in a remarkable undercover dash to Aus australia fralia by the mosquito boat hero of bay L t cut john D bulkeley gen jonathan wainwright took over on bataan wainwright the stony faced general whom the says bos loved it as much as macarthur lacking food heavy guns planes rod and tart tanks and ad facing an overwhelming wh bel ming superiority to la enemy forces wainwright a men were finally overwhelmed by jap forces estimated at on an april 3 9 long after the guns on bataan ceased firms firing the guns of corregidor III is rock kept fir i LA L A Z Z official U S navy photo h g of the battles hip arizona its r the japanese raid pearl harbor mg ing wainwright and some of his amz men had fortunately ano enough us h succeeded ad ur as getting on the rock etc c k be b fore bata bataan fell all cala completely p cut off from forn rai reinforcement or canum a Si and heavily outnumbered com corregidor r surrendered to the japs on ca may y 6 f wainwright and his gallant bond band are amr now presumed to be prison prisoners ors of the japs battle of javit java so sea the th battle of the java sea began february b 27 ahn when the h allied ad fleet attacked the superior japanese P a a fleet act haran off t the be netherlands ds fast east indies in this engage engagement a or 13 united nations warships slaps totaling tar tons were lost t in a series of enga engagements cements lasting I 1 from born february 27 7 to march arch 1 in included in the if S losses was was the 9 tun ton cruiser henoc houston Ho noc shia and the 1 1193 too ton destroyer pope pop th the allies lost a all U five cruisers which participated in the action these losses were hard to take but america began to smile again in fact it howled with delight when th the a big bg news brake broke that brig 0 gen OA james a jimmy N doolittle famous speed that flier and world war I 1 ace had dropped plenty of eggs ove over r tokyo with a squadron of of north nort h american B that nuS mission SIGG was fulfilled on an april 18 and it went over big both here in america and in tokyo first real victory of war in the battle of that island studded ocean an known as a the car coral al s sea which fach is near the sim solomon islands 1 I a and d about 1000 1 md hiis northeast of australia america a first re real victory t cc ry of the war with japan w was scored 0 r e the action ati G n occurred ru ad baix on go may Y 4 and called forth deeds of valor as thrilling as any in all A american merican history tiie the coral sea bat battle t 1 Is was the he first g great at naval defeat ever a dealt the naval imperant imperial japanese liters fleets and yet fit this gr great at battle was a fought im entirely birely in the a air it by the planes plane of 1 mg ing aircraft earners cuillier the ships engaged in this the ba battle never got sight of each other they slugged it out without firing a single gun gar at another ship the first engagement ga of its kind in history in I 1 this his first gre great al victory f for r the U S in this glo global b a war I 1 the h a japs lot lost more are than 15 ships sunk and at leat least 20 others severely damaged the action perhaps saved australia from invasion lle Howe ll vei e america paid a price for far he her r victory in the sultry cora carol sea in this is eng engagement a cament the foot inner aircraft aft carrier lexington famed ship I 1 that laid the foundation for our modern navy a aircraft carrier operations erat ions went to the bottom this happened on may 7 the destruction of a japanese armada atad arad ad some am hundreds of miles mile off ff Abdi midway vity 10 island d on as june jane A 4 and awas 5 was another other act action of the same kind in this engagement V U S army bombers roared red off from fleno their bases on an midway island just another dot 0 on the pac pacific fic to meet the most formidable array army of war warships alups that imperial impanel japan ever at sent steaming against a toe foe the armada ads was put to c complete PI I 1 rout at th the carrier yorktown was lost lea in it the battle of mi midway d way it we went to the bottom on an june 7 in the final phases of the great sea s air batt battle but before the grand oad old Y went down she catapulted from her flight deck dt the dive bombers tighten fighters and torpe torpedo a planes that swung the tide of battle in in favor of old glory A heavy toll tol of jap ships was taken saps jap lo lodo invade do aleutians Aleut ians early I 1 in june after te bombing b dutch harbor in GO alaska as I 1 j jap S P forces rea invaded vad several of the aleutian al tut islands g m t the th a north pacific they made ad cel their t h main ma stronghold to it kiska and evidently d e n ti believed that the everlasting e r 1 ling be togs ag 1 that at shroud these lands islands would ad be t their h it protection but uncle sam wa was up there them too and soon the fleet s h heavy envy guns carol catalaa I 1 lying boa boats B 1 and B F flying libor ato Forb fortresses relea ond and liberators b began n bomberg bombing and blasting them the out at 0 on august ag a t 8 a U S navy task te force consisting of 1 a gra great t concentration n of cruisers cruiser and destroyers de broyers tr glided through the aleutian fogs a almost most to hero ship saila balls into enemy fleet all guns blazing i lynu oi of the battle for one guadalcanal Guadal dalm canal nal in DUAN mid november when I 1 the th aliber a japs threw I 1 in all they had he d to recap recapture t are the island with its strategic I 1 r 9 infield airfield the fil navy did I 1 a magnificent in mar g 1 job ob in this engagement despite te their aier great a an numerical in I 1 superiority r in ships chips enemy a losses war were bout about three to our me one on at the height of the action the cruiser S san na francisco sailed balled right into u the enemy my fleet ale right through th augh the enemy beelas beet S president I 1 roose cose tell elt told the story A AH guns were blazing b 1 at 1 point blank bi range she engaged a japanese battleship rod and disabled h her ar so go she gould could be sunk sank by torpedoes rest rear admiral daniel J callaghan volt a close e friend ot of president roosevelt w who h a was aboard b ld the san fla francisco in III command of the spearhead phed ot I 1 the a attacking force gave his hie for or his country in this battle the san S an francisco F rancito oo although hit many tunes times was brought back to port I 1 tai 9 when major general Waln Wain wainwright wight hero hem of corridor corregidor saw that de as waa inevitable he be said ad 1 I it stay star with my men and be did gen cral era wainwright shown above is now a prisoner of the japs jap the verv ve rv guns of the invaders and hurled tons of TN TNT T an and al steel into jap shipping and shore installations IOU 0 na in sapping K kiska harbor in the but bat ti tle of kiska only one observation plane sea was a lost not as much as a machine ac hire gun bullet hit the fleet since that time the japs have pulled out t of 1 the aleutians Aleut rut thel ians with t h the exception of ku kiska ka their main a I 1 strong stronghold lia old and d the e united IJ ted states st a has strang strengthened ame d I 1 its S posit position on against them by occupation of the andreanos Andrea not mf group of the althana aleutians Aleut ians much closer to jap held kiska S be a old glory hoisted flin sted in solomons on the very day when the japs in kiska took such a pounding fro from U S forces exactly 7 eight months he to the day after pearl pear 1 harbor old glory was hoisted by U shino S marines over the first tell territory taken be back from the japs this 7 gl glorious gaurmia urmia event took place on the mountainous I 1 island of guadalcanal Guadal canal key to the solomon soloman islands in the southwest et pa cabic this mile long island ish id lies I 1 athwart the strategic route mute to aus ans aralia the japs had labored long in hacking backing an airfield out of the cal wilderness of Guad guadalcanal Guadal aleana canal 1 the marines mama took it away fromi from theria them and there has hem been a cont continuing g day and night battle for poss possession asu ion of the airfield ev ever shi since ce in their efforts to recover ar this thin vital airfield a ifield henderson field had and the key is land the japs have risked placing the main force of their navy within ran range e of macarthurs Mac Arthurs deadly flying F ing fortresses 0 artre e and ad the forts fort tbt roar mar up off of henderson field we have lost some fine ships in the region of guadalcanal Guadal canal but losses on an the island have beer been light compared to what the JP japs have lost acm according iding to navy reports I 1 th their air losses run four or five times its heavy as ours however there has been a turning running battle tor for continued possession of the island on an the part of the U S and for re 1 possession posse n on apart part of th the ajulia japs day and night the pounding dag goes on fro from sea and a d sky 4 but bot the marines backed by I 1 the b a ary army and navy avy have hung on and hse be made some same gains A real showdown show down basw between een U S and J jap a III forces a a in ill the solomons 11 ams game came about in mid november when he the greatest naval battle a since jutland in 1916 was fought supported by supported macarthur A a b g bombers the navy a ban in a ahr th ead ea d a gy running battle smashed sau thad a tremendous enemy i main armada fi lifting the immediate threat to U S positions on guadalcanal Guadal canal at As we pose pause P ose to remember pearl harbor we must to get the overall picture have in mind the heroic work of U S air pilots over china and d U S air pilots GP G operating cooperating co P ling gyr ach w with t h the tha royal air force in almost in at daily or nightly rop operations ratio over hitler reich rauh rod and oer what rhe was known as a occupied france we must us remember member e the fine work done bv erbern troops in operation cooperation co with australians who hr have v acu pushed gd back the japs in new guinea games t turning in g the tide bile ol of battle in the oat owen banle si stanley y mountains saving port part atoms moresby by and helping g to remove the threat from ADS australia arailia day b by Y da day Y through all 11 the months this has been going 0 on n brave mew me dy dying while nue we tak take e ture time out to read about it opening of the second front F I 1 things came to a head in the african on d desert eret car early Y in november thousands s a ot 0 american boys bay took tank men hur and s aviators store n p participated in the i great grant push of t the th a british brita I 1 eighth ZY Z army Y against gen emin rommel a ainia 0 korps which at on one um time was as d dangerously close to the sa suez canal aroi one of britain s darkest boul hours swiftly on the heels oi D this battle it a which became h a rout mih as british is forces broke through the el ala ah mem le gli line bre america got go t the world d aih a shaking ug news of the wol opening of elered the ia long ig expected fe second aul front r art at an unexpected spot in N north or th africa aft ac on in saturday november 7 ali ah tz weve forg forgotten its for the moment or that t raid on dic dieppe fiance alim m OD pied pid france that dangerous raid laid last august when american costly me be rangers ng ar war were the first filet D actual to t 0 in I 1 units to participate boil elmate GO lead land operations ope ratio t the he on go continent I 1 during thus this war the dieppe raid was ax not at S only he hearsay I 1 I 1 for a mus r the aar second front ba but also a red d h herring ties drawn stera across the bloody nazi a t trail d the dieppe diedo we was the I 1 foundation I 1 aftan I 1 ill raid rai cent at success re with 1 w which the north awl anfu in aarl africa c was 1 launched tim elied under der the brilliant le leader d aset or gen EaRm hoWer dwight t |