Evening star., 1942-01-23
REPORT TO THE NATION +;
First InstoIment 0f Focts and
Figures on War Accomplishments

its aircraft carriers It's chain Of bases extended
far into both and it had enrolled 5000 newcers
In those 10 months combatant ships many kinds
rs @ as s
in accounts battles but essential the men
Where they being built? At shipyards up
both coasts and far inland the Great Lakes where
yards building ships for the Navy BY November there
were 1873 yards-not including the Mavy's own So yards
plane complement of increased Before the
entered the shooting stage the Maryland the Marine Corps
It interesting to note here that last July the Of
for naval aviation training eight times the rate in May
l940 greater rush was to come
The Navy alone stations. Jacksonville and
Pensacola the Navy has in operation two OF its greatest
training stations third Corpus Christi The Corpus
Christi station shows what Americans do when they decide
to put their backs into effort In just 10 months fiat
desert area OF sand and scrub turned into modern CITY,
city with miles of streets and runway city Of permanent
buildings with leagues OF water mains and power lines city
with one help build an air fleet for our Navy
Our Far Flung Line.
All this expansion of and forces has led to vast
increase in naval shore establishments.
American sailors and marines serving in Newfound
land they serving at Bermuda they serving at Great
Exuma Island in the Bahamas they serving at Antigua
Jamaica st. Lucia and Trinidad in the Caribbean and Brit
ish Guiana in South America In the Pacific sailors and
marines hold farfung bason of bases protecting from
would be invaders from Asia.
deal of work has into the development of those
bases AS Secretary Knox pointed out what gained
destroyer right
by had to be installed Dockyard coast artillery barracks
lines of supply for food and coal workmen do the build
needed
veOping bases last
For time American have been shared by nations
resisting Axis aggression Ever since the endease program
under the owar of Great Britain have been
coming into American yards to repahe of battles
distant Merchant ships flying the ags OF Britain and OF
Russia of Holland Norway Greece other countries
also put into our harbors They have been outted with de-
and fitted with guns Liners have been turned into transports
to carry troops oupos and bring British flying cadets
to our training fields.
Meantime impressive numbers of ships
being overhauled and converted for effective wartime
increased fire Mine protection
out stations installed To give example from single
class Twentyhree old deSrOyers modernzed and
commissioned Foyone others converted for important
Private shpyard shared in the gaining valuab"
experience for the big job ahead.
A Naval Problem without Parallel.
The Navys today twofold-t
Of its life its hands, and tremendous defensive
patroing job like
with Germany in the Atlantic with Japan in the Pacific
with Italy in the Mediterranean At the time must
police with Britain the lanes from Iceland the bulge
South America and with the British Dutch Australian
Naves the Pacific Singapore Fighting
which might otherwise be attack the
must two mobile of steel guarding
the routes to and from the eastern ports Of South
Central America They must ships clear
Western Hemisphere from the Straits of Magellan to the North
Berng Sea- This naval problem without parallel in
history.
Long before Pearl Harbor the Navys ability give
blows had been shown in the between
and Europe in the months obeyng N
command to shoot first.
The Navy and the Marine entered with
unprecedented peacetme strength Their compliments fight
ing forces being increased with
by no other nation earth at this time The Nays ultimate
strength rests soundy the the spirit and the
capacity Of this country to carry completion plane and
shpbudng before thought could be
(To Be Continued Tomorrow