Evening star., 1945-06-01
Force Of I Million
Will Be Fighting laps
In Year, He Asserts
The teTt of President Tru-
mans message to Congress to-
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The teTt of President Tru-
mans message to Congress to-
day:
The primary task facing tn
Nation today is to win the war /,
Japan-to win it completely an,
to win it as quickly as possible. Fo
every day by which it is shortene,
means a saving of American lives
No one can recount the success
OF the forces of decency in this wa
without thinking of the one mai
who was more responsible for vic
tory than any other single human
belng-Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Under his guidance, this grea
Nation grew to be the most powerful
military force in all history.
Under his leadership, the Alice
strategy was developed which brok,
down Hitler's fortress, crumblet
Germany itself into ruins and IN
conditional surrender, and ha
brought us within striking distanc,
of Tokyo
But there can be no peace in the
world until the military power o.
Japan is destroyed-with the same
completeness as was the power Of
the European dictators.
Process of Deploying
Millions to Pacific.
To do that, we are now engaged ir
a process of deploying millions OF
our armed forces against Japan in
mass movement of troops and sup
plies and weapons over $4,000 miles
"a military and naval feat un-
equalled in all history.
think it appropriate at this time
to inform the Congress and my
countrymen of some of the prob
lens, difficulties, and dangers which
confront us in finishing this war
and how we expect to meet them.
Those who have the heavy respon-
sibility of directing the Nation S
military efforts do not underesti-
mate the difficulties of crushing an
enemy defended by vast distances
and animated by desperate fanat-
icism
And yet, we have adopted what
Is a new development in military
history. In the face of a conflict
with numerous and fanatical
enemy we have undertaken during
the next II months to discharge ap-
proximately 100000 of the best SOL
diers the world has ever seen.
The program for the defeat of
Germany was accomplished with an
accuracy seldom attained in war
yet We had but little margin at the
finish. On April l, 1945, the last
American division to arrive in
France entered the battle line.
Crush German Machine
In Shortest Possible Time.
The strategy of the war in Europe
was to have all the men that could
be effectively deployed on land and
sea to crush the German military
machine in the shortest possible
time.
That is exactly what we plan to
do to Japan.
Up to the time of the collapse of
Germany the United States Navy.
under the superb leadership of Fleet
Admiral King, was carrying on two
great campaigns thousands of miles
apart from each other-one in the
Atlantic and one in the Pacific.
These campaigns were distinctly
different. The Atlantic campaign
consisted essentially of anti-sub-
marine and amphibious operations
Even as the war nears the end, our
Navy had to cope with a submarine
blitz which was intended to hit our
coast in April
The Pacific campaign has in
volved to major degree all the sur
face, air, amphibious and submarine
aspect of naval warfare; but anti
submarine operations have played
only subordinate role.
At one time in 1943 the United
States Navy was employing over
100 planes in its anti-submarine
warfare in the Atlantic; and, in
mid 1914, over 900 ocean-going es-
cort vessels
All Escort Vessels
Going to Pacific.
All of our escort vessels have been,
or will be, sent to the Pacific, ex-
cept for very few to be retained in
the Atlantic for training purposes
or to meet any remotely possible
emergency.
Our Navy, in addition to the mi
raculous job of conveying our end
less stream of men and materials to
Europe did its full share, under over
all British naval command, in am
phibious operations in that theater
The use of its landing craft and car
riers and the fire support of its bat
tleships, cruisers and destroyers
made possible the landings in North
Africa in 1912, in Sicily and Italy in
1943 and in Normandy and Southern
France in 1914.
Even before the invasion of France
some of our Atlantic naval force
had already been sent to the Pacific
After our troops were firmly estab-
lished ashore, fighting ships were
moved to the Pacific as rapidly as
they could be released from the re-
quirements of the European and
Mediterranean theaters and from
antisubmarine warfare.
The japanese have already felt
the presence of those ships-and will
continue to feel it more and more
Pacific Naval Campaign
Had Four Major Phases.
In the Pacific the naval campaign
has gone through four major phases
The first was the defensive of
1941 and of the first half of 1912
when we fought in the Philippines
and the East Indies, in the Coral
Sea- at Midway and in the Aleutians
The second was the offensive-de-
fensive in late 1912 at Guadalcanal.
The third was the limited offensive
in l943 when we advanced slowly
through the Solomons and retook
the Aleutians.
The fourth was the full offensive
of 1914 and 1945, when the forces OF
the Southwest Pacific area, under
General of the Army Macarthur
and those of the Central Pacific area
under Fleet Admiral Nimitz, made
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