T o da y be g ins hate for the brutal Jap. For to da y we learn that the Far ~ EasternA■ Slew:lJ gang has executed some of the c a ptured American fliers who raided Tokyo. This was announced to da r in a statement by President Roosevelt. ~ Two of the bombers t= th a t assailed Japan landed on Chinese territory controlled by the enemy. Each plane carried five men - there were ten in all. Of these, five are known to have been captured by the Japs, and three other ■ are believed to have been. Two a re missing, unaccounted for. The Japs charged that the American planes had bombed non-military objectives. On this · accusation they put the prisoners on trial, and sentenced them to death. Most of tilt sentences were commuted to imprisonment, but some of th e p ri s on e rs were executed. Pearl H a r bor was an i nf a my , but it wa s an ; PRI S ONERS - 2 ---------- act of war. It was tr achery, but it was a blow struck with military meaning. The execution of American airmen who flew in the Tokyo attack was sheer savagery, wanton, without any reason save blood lust - atrocity, murder. And we can echo the words with which President Roosevelt announced the crime tod a y: •It is with a feeling of deepest horror, civilized which I know will be shared by al~•iziii•,- people,• said he, •that I have to announce the barbarous execution ■fx*k ■ by the Japanese government of so ■ e of the members of this country!s armed forces who fell into Japanese hands as an incident of warfare.• The President reveals that our Government made inquiries about the p risoners - inquiries following repeated Tokyo statements that they had been severely punished. Swiss diplom a tic autho r ities acted in behalf of the United St a tes, an d r o cured an admission from the Japs, which was transmitted to the United ff: States.(:be Aaepieaa CevePB■ea,, 1 aaid the P1eaidaaba t.ed.ay, 'reoeivea tihe eo · t;· · 01ca 100 g1•e• h7 the iepaneee 80,e1nman~ twd la fao\ ~een ~1ied and ~hat the •ea~h penal~ had been pronounced against them. It was f•r•h,.._ Al\11, 1 tll lt11iieot goes on, •tha~ ~he •••t~. pena1,, was eoamuted for some eut that ~he ee••••M e4 d.ea~h had been applied \e ethePe,• The\ for ■ •• Witjuaau, Lelli ef ene of the ■ ona••e~• ••i••• of, The official atateaent reads: •The American governme will hold personally and officially ~esponsible for those deliberate crimes, all of those officers of the Japanese Government . to have par ticipated in their commi t ment - and will in due course bring those officers to jud ment ." The Jap accusation that the Tokyo raiders bombed non-military objectives is refuted completely _ by the President. lie states that the fliers had instructions to attack only targets of military importance. It ia known that they did not deviate fro ■ those instruction•• ••1a . tire Pr•• hi••~ To this I can add roae things told•• by General Doolittle, who led the rairl. He explained why his warplanes di4 not bomb the Imperial Palace of Hirohito. That structure was a dominating object, and the American fliers over Tokyo could see it clearly. They could have smashed it with ease. But Doolittle had given them definite orders not to do so. It might have been a blow to Jap morale if they had ~ h e palace o . f that absurd Son of Heaven whom the Jape worship as divine. It might have been an effective stroke of war, but the Doolittle rai ers had PRI S O N ERS - 5 -------- orders from their commander not to bomb anything but milit a ry targets. It mi g ht be argued that the Japane1e • Imperial Palace could be considered a military target, but Jimmy Doolittle went the limit in being scrupulous. Be and his men were,not going to attack anything that was not definitely ■ ilitary according to the rulea of modern war. Ji ■my Doolittle told me that many people had criticized hi ■ for being so acreupuloua - over-acrupuloua they thought. ~ et how did the Japa repay that sort of ethics? They executed prisoners, for those very things that our fliers had been ao careful to avoid. So tod a y be g ins a new era of American hate for the brutal Jap - today, when we have the t Of the foul deed of Jap ferocity,xxxx announcem e n · ~ t.lle hH.- feen t o g e ther w i th ~he A~eris'!; ~=- ~eveal" w h a t a o f t he Tokyo air rai d . UIIIII\ galla n t ex p lo i t i t was. -~xsaax1111«xsn~~XE DOOLITTLE ____ ,,_, __ 7P No th · t ;,e h · ve t h e " ' : ~ li!?1i :1; t£.e ~ 2 acn::_tl:rakxtl:raxllaalikk1iixak111Qxiaxaa7axa . ------~"1~1-A a number one oint is this -- the •••~•~x•••xp■ t•sxt■ x~•x■aiaxiaxtaiax•xtaaxaxJl ■isxwaa bombin fi of Japan was more heroi than we thought, ··••x••••x••••i•xsaaanax&k••·••Jx■■aaxa ■K■xx!aaxf•ll mueh more .. Sa•••1xaaxa•sx&t We realized all along that it was a superb deed of - ~ ~ ~~ ...,Aknow the half of it. Military #:,(' valor, bu~~ clJ:&clt secrecy, designed to conceal the facts fro• the eneay, also hid the full measure of the daring of the Doolittle fliers who went wingin g to Tokyo. The key element was that of timing. The plan · was to take off from the _s,rrier HORNET four hundred miles off the coast of Japan take off in the late afternoon. Jimmy Doolittle, flyin g first, was to have arrived over his Tokyo target just at dusk. That t day light for bombin g , the last minutes wou d have mean of dayli g ht - and then the cover of darkness for the DOOLITTLE• 2 ----- rest of the flight, the getaway. Jimmy, with a heavy load of incendiaries, would li ht huge fi~ds, and these would guide the planes coming in Tokyo at dusk would h a ~ n t a night /\ later. Bombing flight across the China Sea - arriving in China in the early morning, with daylight for landing. That was the ideal plan - darkness protecting the getaway fro• ~1Li. ~ ~C2.t~-'6t-~ Japan, and then a landin"'•_3c;llg•~ But even ao, • the hazards were great, anci/th• fliers were well aware that they were likely never to return. ~ T h e ideal plan could not be carried out, bec a use a Japanese patrol ship spotted the bombing - ~ expedition prematurely -!'!'he HORNET with the other warships of the task force. · It had been agreed that - ~ if the enemy should epM the squadron sooner than ;( expected, the planes would take off immediately. The ta s k f o rce, consistin- g . . .. of tw · o carriers, es c orted by cruisers and destroyers, was a mighty valuable lot of equi p ment over there in ~apanese waters. And the deck of the HORNET was covered with sixteen big Aray bombers. The carrier could no t release its own figh~er planes for protection - and what could be more helpleaa than a big flattop, its deck covered with army bombers? ~ e y sank the Japanese patrol boat, and then ,.. the planes took off. The fliers knew what they were going into, they realized the schedule they had to follow.The timing was the most dangerous that could have been devised. They were taking off eight hundred miles froa the co a st, instead of four hundred miles - more dist ~ nce to fly with their limited gasoline. An d it was in the morning, instead of the late •f*■ za■■ afternoon - which put the bombers -0ver Tokyo at midday, daylight flyin g into Jepe . n and out. Meaning - a maximum likelihood of bein g shot down by Jap fighters and anti-aircraft guns. · Row did it ~appen that not one plane was lost over Japan? ftuJxla■ itxxi• I" asked Jimmy Doolittle about that, ~ad he replied that he could su~gest only one explanation - that the Japanese anti-aircraft ayetem was co ■pletely disorganized by the surprise of the attack. They had been practicing elaborate defense ag,inst air raids, but the whole thing went haywire when the crisis ca■ ei the warning system, fighter plane mobilization and the ••**••*••n anti-aircraft batteries were completely befuddled. Because of that, the desperate peril of bombing Tokyo at mid day was mini ■ ized, and the skill of the fliers did the rest - several Jap fighter planes being shot. down. Leaving Tokyo a little after one o'clock ia ~a• in the afternoon, the bombers had the worst kind of DOO L ITTLE - 5 - -- ~ schedule. They~ pproachei the ccfft of China at night. for landing. In A-JfJ. fact, they dd,:t.. expect to reach the coast~ Because of the extra mileage, they figured to run out oft gas some distance from the shore. So the prospect was - a night landing in ' the China Sea,.. with the bombers sihking and the crews taking to their rubber boats, if they could.1f"What actually got the■ to land was a violent storm, a tail wind, a lashin1 ~ gale that blew them on into south China. I••••• "' rugged mountain country: and in the storm at night they could never hope to find a landing field. They ran out of gas in tempest and darkness among the aountains. l•aa. fhiee plea•• aeie ereeh landings in 8hiaa, •••• ~o plaaee get into the part of ebina eeettpi.ed •:Y \Ile _QQ1 --1 .!1LL-6 pa r achutes. In the drivin a w in d and rain at night, ,-,_. ~ ; ·-!: ! ·~ .... "J"--,~p they landed in free Ch i . na. a:: : ;J 41! The otbAt1' ~ . - , ~ ~ A .A.started w a lkin g in some of the wildest country on earth. Some were weeks in gettin g to Chinese headquarters. It took General Doolittle, himself, three weeks. Now add to all this the fact that, extaft for Jimmy Doolittl e , all of the Tokyo raiders w e re lads just out of flyin g school · - with a minimu~of exp e rience. They h~d been given in three months an intensive tr a inin for the raid, but they were gz ■■•k•z••x green yo un sters - li k e tens of thousands of ot h ers who are be i ng turned out at our air training b as e s . Th e ir ~ s c h e d u l e called for extreme haz ard s. The o n e th ey h.:.l. to follo w a s s t ill more dan erous by far - the m o st p eri l ous ti m in of a ll. _QQ11TT1E - 7 T~ we learn ho v gre~t their coura e really was, an to w . ar e told th a t the Japs executed some th t they captured. Many of us h o ~ not yet loathed th t barbarous Far ~astern enemy sufficiently thus far, will do so now. ~he Arm~ bas it& owa reeelve, laaaxitxwaa x The Army has its own resolve, and knows what to do to avenge those Army fliers.~e War ~~ Departmen gives us the pledge 1 ~hat the Doolittle raid will be repeated with bombings ten times as great, k•aizaiax a hundred times -- the Jape to be bombed time and again, without end, until they a e b l ast~d to utter defeat. NO R T H AFRICA ------ - -- The war news is ~ostly about Tunisia, where the Bri t ish have driven a wedge two miles deep into the Nazi defenses. This follows . the word we had last night -- the news that General 0 ntgomery's Eighth Army had begun the assault of Ro m mel's Tunisia fortress ~ ~ I The British"captured the key point of Enfidaville, described as an anchor of the Nazi ' line-!here was no resistance~4'- Enfidaville, Rommel pulling out, as a result of 1clever maneuver by General llontgomery. ~he fighting is savage and the going is slow. The Germans defending their powerful mountain lines with desperate tenacity,:: ■ as are launching ferocious counter attacks. Rommel has his back to the wall, and is acting accordingly, defending every foot of the rugged terrain of hills and cliffs:frhe British note · that the forward defenders in this engagement are Germans -- not Italians, as in previous encounters. Ro m mel has had a habit of using the less trustworthy Italians, for initial defense, and then throwing in his hardened Afrika Korps at critical points. This time he is relying on his desert veterans NO TH AFRICA - 2 --------- from beginning to end -- fighting ferociously for every foot of the bestricted territory th the now To ay the Presidents of the United States and Mexico were on American so1·1. Aft er their meeting ~ at the oldACity of Monterey yesterday, Presidents Roosevelt and Camacho crossed the border to the United States today. Special cars for the Camacho party were added to the Presi d ent's train, and off they went - into Texas, to Corpus Christi. There the conferred again - President Camacho in a formal repaying President Roosevelt's visit to Mexico. rm e hear that fvR.ai:1■ -x OS the Roosevelt .iourriey to the southern Republic has made a profound impression in the land below the Rio Grande. The Mexicans are a proud people, much given to punctilio. And they take it as a special courtesy tha~ the President of the United States, ' ~ the stress of war-time, hat gone to their 1tftr~ ,( country to meet their President - instead of Camacho, for example, going to Washington , the ' bite House. U E XICO - 2 ---- r e h a ve prompt re p orts that Mexico will redouble its effort in thew r, and there is a belief this siater Republic may send an expeditionary force to fight beside American armies on'foreign fronts. H J: ICO PTE S --------- A ne reat development in the art of human ~~!ee., fli ht)(..."""i'~announced . ~eea,. W e are informed that helicopters are now bein used extensively against Nazi U-bo a ts. The helicopter, that kind of f l ying mac ine hich can rise straight up and hover in the -- -"!fo1 air, A~ lon dream of aeronautics. And now, all of a sudden, we hear that not only has the helicopter becom~ a real and practical thing, but also that it's in operation 4&dl a major weapon of war, helicopters in large numbers being uaed as protection for convoys out in the Atlantic. Captain Leland~ Lovett, Director of Public Relations {,,tthe Navy, makes the disclosure and states: "Vie think thi:thelicopters will be the secret of success against the submarines." Important for war? Yes. And also in p eace-time to come. 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