Chicago world., 1948-06-19
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criptive title "The Story Navy
Couldn't Tell" 1t deals with the
controversy over the relative
| combat merits Of land-based
| versus carrier-based aircraft
i-!IIm mo no s9uIIgop 9ql SuILnO
| tary expansion program, the Air
Forces and the Army have insis-
ted that carrier-based planes
largely outlived their usefulness
! and that huge, land-based bonn.
. bers are capable of performing
any conceivable mission. The
Navy's that huge, land-based
bombers ae capable of perform
ing any conceivable mission. The
Navy's side of this controversy
was never clearly presented. Ac-
cording to the Evening News
''The implication is clear. The
Navy had been muzzled by the
Air Force, apparently with the
the backing Of the Army and
and the Administration high
cOmmanl.
The News then goes on the
Navy's flying achievements in
the Pacific war-and it's a story
that should be known to every
American
The news then goes to sum
up the Navy's flying achievement
in the Uacific war and it's a
story that should be nown tok
every American.
Naval aviation, including the
Marine corps, dstryed 14.150 JAP
anese planes, as agains 1923
for the Army Air Forces. Eighty
per cent OF the Navy's total were
destroyed by carrier-based planes
and OF these 8 per cent were
Japanese land-based craft. That
means that our carrier planes
F., alone got rid Of 9 per cent more
enemy planes than did the Army
Air Forces.
For every one Of our carrier
planes lost incombat, IA enemv
pianes were shot down. This ID.
To- l combat superiority com
pares with a ration of about 7
70 ! for land-based Navy and
Marines planes and 5 to for
the Air Forces.
! Finally, U. S. carrier planes
destroyed 5,649 enemy aircraft
on the ground, as againsa 2.981
50 accounted for by the Army Air
Forces. 80 -
TO quote the News again. ma
val aviation, and especially car
ller-nased aircraft, played the
major role in the winning of
american air supremacy in the
Facl1lc war-and thereby demon
strated the vital importance of
Naval air power in any future
f, war strategy If Congress does
nt now what Naval aviation has
done and can do, it's time it
round out. And it also had beeter
De lnqulrlng who tied a gag on
the Navy-in flagrant violation
OF the spirit Of the unification
program"
This eountry's security de-
pends upon tn. ebalanced deye.
lopment of all the arms. Roth
carrler-based and land-based
aircraft have vital roles to NAV
Inc kind of inter-service lea
lousy that exaggerates the ach.
levements of one while it at
tempts to minimize the deeds OF
another cannot be tolerated
COURAGEOUS. OPPOSITION
IWeleve labor leaders could
bring this nation to a standstiI
in just half an hour" said Ceci
B. DeMille, motion picture pro
Queer and director, in testifyins
before the House Labor Com
mite, which is reviewing labor
laws. He urged laws guaranteeins
the right to work." He is the
central figure in a four-year- OLE
dispute with the union over hi:
refusal to pay one dollar poll
teal assessment for which he
was suspended by the American
Federation of Radio Artists
Since then, Mr.. DeMille has no
been allowed to work on the All
for any employer.
| In testifying before the Com
mite, the witness said: eve
have seen the danger to the right
to work from employers. bur
the unions have now broken that
and. the pendulum has swuns
the other way. !. the unions have
gone too far"
| Mr.. DeMille urged the Com
! mittee to consider law declar
ing q fundamental right tc
work." and stated a Constitut
lonal amendment might be nee
essary to guarantee it. He bIam
ed both labor and management
for "battering' at mans right t.
work when and where he pleas
ed. "A Federal right-to-work law
backed up by stiff criminal pen
alties and substantial civil dam
ages would go far to clarity tn,
! just limits OF the right to strik,
and discourage use of COON tac
tics on American citizens wht
want exercise their right t,
work"
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