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AMERICA'S HERO CHAPLAINS
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AMERICAN chaplains in World War II range from Greenland s icy
mountains to India's coral strand. Although they do not carry
arms, they are with the fighting men at beachheads and in foxholes,
and many have been cited for gallantry under fire. Here are some.
Catholic Marine
a »valn won Legion
«*•' -*>rit for penetrat
Japanese lines on
w - a dale ana I three
times to evacuate
trapped missionaries.
Christian Science, Ar
my; won Legion cf
Merit and Croix da
Guerre with silver
star for evacuation of
dead under fire in
North Africa, Sicily.
Baptist; landed with
Ma ine assault wave
at Tarawa. Won Le
gion of Merit for
helping wounded and
administering last
riles under hre. ^
Catholic; Army's most
decorated chaplain;
has Distinguished
Service Cross, Silver
Star; lost leg in Italy
carrying wounded
under heavy fire.
S; United Brethren, Ar
my, awarded Croix
l de Guerre with gold
star by French gov
ernment for service
in the North African
campaign.
Catholic, Marines;
awarded Silver Star
for going beyond
lines on Bougainville
to rescue wounded
and administer last
rites to the dying.
Methodist, Army; won
Distinguished Service
Cross for rescue of
wounded at Clark
Field, Philippines,
during Japanese
raid, Dec. 8, 1941.
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Baptist, Marines, Sil
ver Star; searched
Bougainville jungle
for wounded, was
unheeding target of
Japanese snipers at
burial services.
WHAT IT MEANS—
IMPORTANCE
OF FIREPOWER
By JAMES D. WHITE
WASHINGTON- — Undersecre
tary of War Patterson said the
other day that Anglo-American
armses on the Norman beachhead,
were approaching a point where
they would have four times the
r firepower the Germans have.
The German army is no ama
teur when it comes to massing
firepower, but the truly remark-!
able thing about our fire super- i
iority in Nomandy is that it was
brought in over flat beaches and
across the English Channel.
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Firepower Is Killing
“Firepower is the killing end
of the business” added Patterson.
It’s what enables you to shoot
a German with >Jour eight-shot
automatic Garand rifle before he
picks you off with his gun which
has less firepower. It enables you
to blast out the enemy before he
can throw enough to blast you
out. Superior firepower can hold
the enemy down from a distance
and keep him from counterat
attacking and throwing you out
on your neck.
From Saipan, AP correspondent
Rembert James reported that
American firepower reversed the
historic military ratio of casual
ties on that bloody island. In the
first 14 days of fighting the Amer
icans buried 1,474 of their own
dead, but buried 4§5i v7npan*^e
This does not count a lot of de<l'}
the Japanese buried themselves to
conceal their losses.
Subsequently in Washington,
the Navy announced that at the
close of all oganized opposition
on Saipan, American dead totalled
2,359 and the Japanese 11,498—a
ration of almost 5 to 1.
Military thinkers traditionally
have figured that an attacking
force, striking a well-dug-in
enemy, would suffer three times
as many casualties as the de
fending force. On Saipan, Ameri
can firepower was so great that
the defending Japanese paid ap
proximately 5 to 1 in casualties
against the attacking and more
exposed Americans.
Captives Lose Spirit
Soldiers have no doubts about
what firepower means and recog
nize its implications instantly.
Germans surrendering on the
Norman battlefields may be cocky
when they give up, but by the
lime they have marched to the
•ear through the acres of heavy
stuff the Americans are bringing I
ip, they often are despondent.!
rhey realize that Allied armies
here have such firepower super
ority that the' German batle
s hopeless. This reaction by sur
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rendering Germans has been re
pored many times.
From Normandy, AP corres
pondent Don Whitehead, reported
that during a minute of the drive
on St. Lo he tried to count the
detonations of American heavy
guns firing from his position. He
said he gave up when the count
reached 70, and the explosions
were coming so fast they mingled.
Firepower includes everything
that goes bang—rifle.-, grenades
mortars, big and little artillery,
rockets and aerial bombe. The
more you ^end the enemy the less
lie can hit back and the sooner
he’ll quit
Bx* Guns Hubs to Hub
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j But the big stuff is increasingly
important in this war, as exem
plified by the Russians who mass
I their artillery almost hub to hub
for miles when they start a big
drive
This is why the War Depart
ment has ordered an increase of
seeral hundred per cent in the
production of heavy shells. The
| announced purpose is to provide
unprecedented massed firepower
for American forces in combat
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zones.
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j Another reason is that you can
j replace the tons and tons of shells
j fired on the enemy. You can't re
place the men.
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