The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-18
Interpreting
The ar .
BY KiRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press W.,

The German high con.nana 'S w..
esa;s a seemingly losing bs +a'
against widening of the An s1,'+'
American Oeachhead in Fra anglo
the second invasion week a.
pointed up striking event, end
wnere on the global war t froe else
The appearance in Jsn,u .''
home skies of the Bog snnar 'sS'
ers had a definite grand s+n Do'N0'
bearing {, on Allied hopes Of c',4.9
the struggle short against N Jsan
as well as Germany. ''' Japan
The Yawta heart Of J,n,.,
steel industry was turned '% ;s.I
roaring inferno, ACCORDING fl lD'O
witness accounts which esti r sye,
that possibly 20 per cent Of '- ta,sl
Nlpponese steel making cana '':a.
had been knocked out. P''9
Break All Records
Flying from bases in Chin, u
29s broke all bomber records t %'
distance and speed as well As s+ri.
ing power. Just how far thew a.a'
to accomplish their first maio~ IsS
mission is undisclosed. But tbo "s
tack left Tokyo in no doubt tb.,
the japanese home front is manu- r,',
Vulnerable to repeated and deva,.
tating assaults from the air
Strike a 1000 mile radius cr,,,
from Tokyo east, south and ws,
on any map. 1t wo ID extend f.,
beyond Chungking, below the Ma.
Arthur threatened southern fin n
Mindanao in the Philippines IA
Guam and beyond in the central
Pacific and east of the western
end of the Aleutian chain. The IA.
can have no certainty that hi,
home front cannot be hit from
many points within that vast RIM
nor that the 29's were let loo,,
until all was ready for an inten.
sified long range air campaign
Time alone can reveal its effect
of japanese war making capacity.
1t took months of concentrate
night and day bombing of Nal
continental targets from Britain o
soften up the French coast for
Eisenhower's invading troops The
full effect there on German war
endurance still is to be revealed
as the battle in Normandy Italy,
Poland, Romania or elsewhere in
Europe rolls to its projected sum-
mertime pitch.
Some Weaknesses
Germany's secret weapon" 70
bot FLYNN bombs, as thus ia. de
scribed, look to be necessarily hit
or-miss missiles, with the same w
damental weaknesses as the mid
get doodle bugs" explosive tanks
tried earlier by the Nazis'
1t is now being proved again il
France, as it was in Russia and or
every great battlefield II history
that the infantry still is the queen
of battles. All the rest Of the vast
equipment of modern armies is
designed to help the infantry do It's
decisive job.
There was something else under
proof in Normandy at the week
end, That was Nazi ability to con-
tain the Allied bridgehead III
France without resort to stTa'e3H
reserves in men and planes
Once Normandy beach Eoas
are punctured in sufficient |-la
and depth to set ashore poVeI-l
Allied armies and equipment !"
seems clear that the foe must eI
err join battle with all he has ;o4 d
or relinquish a huge segme1 u
France.
While informal estimates lun
the front say up to a third Of a.
German troops available III I'
west have now been brought 4 l,'
action in Normandy, that 2To0'''
means only tactical reserves, ,.
1t remains to be seen "As. i'i
they will risk an ultimate s 'a..
or all back sweepingly to ln'Fl l.
and shortened and better ar'lcn-''
ed fronts.