"DAY OF WRATH"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 5

"DAY OF WRATH"

DAWNING FOR JAPAN

America Preparing Big Forces

For Offensive

L nitcd Press Association.—Copyright. Rec. 1 p.m. NE\V YORK, June 8,

The clay of reckoning is not as far off ns some people think. I'm telling Tokyo we have a thousand more Colin Kellevs, Butch O'Hares and .limmy Doolittles on the way, and this is just the dawn of the day of wrath,"' declared LieutenantGeneral Arnold, Chief of the Air Force, in a speech at Mount Pleasant, lowa.

General Arnold added that the Axis knew that the next six months will spell victory or defeat for their forces. For the Axis it was now or never. By the end of the year the United States Army Air Force would have 60,000 officers and nearly 1.000,000 men. By June, 1943. if necessary thev would double that.

"Now that tne volume of production of aircraft is under way, American planes in large numbers are being flown constantly by our Ferrying Command to the areas where they will do most good, to Britain, Russia, the Middle East, China and Australia," General Arnold said. "The United States Army Air Force in six months has bombed and sunk 33 Japanese warships, and 44 transports, freighters and tankers and has destroyed 300 Japanese fighters and bombers in combat and 200 on the ground.