NEMESIS ON THE WAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 3

NEMESIS ON THE WAY

U.S. AIR THREAT TO AXIS

(Rec. 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 8. "The day of reckoning is not as far off as some people think. lam telling Tokio we have a thousand more Colin Kellys, 'Butch' O'Hares, and Jimmy Doolittles on the way. This is just the dawn of the day of wrath," declared Lieut-General Henry H. Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Air Force, in a speech at Mount Pleasant, lowa.

He added: "The Axis knows that the next six months will spell victory or defeat for their forces. For the Axis it is • now or never.

"By the end of the year the United States Army Air Forces will have 60,000 officers and nearly 1,000,000 men. By June, 1943, if necessary, we will double that.

"Now that the volume of production oi aircraft is under way. American planes in large numbers are being flown constantly by our Ferrying Command to the areas where they will do the most good now, to Britain, Russia. the Middle East, China, and Australia

Lieut-General" Arnold said the United States Army Air Forces, in six months, had bombed and sunk 33 Japanese warships and 44 transports, freighters, and tankers, and destroyed 300 Japanese fighters and bombers in combat and 200 on the ground.

Captain Colin Kelly sank a Japanese, battleship, Lieutenant O'Hare shot down six planes in one engagement and saved a, ship, and BrigadierGeneral Doolittle led the raid on Tokio.