WAR STRATEGY
PUT AIR ARM IN CHARGE SENATOR’S SUGGESTION (3 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Senator Lee. chairman of the Military Affairs Sub-Committee, which is investigating cargo plane construction, in the Senate to-day demanded that the army, and .navy, be.made, subordinate to the air arm because air power would win the war.. The army and navy..should Lie. auxiliaries, and airmen put in charge of the strategy.
He declared that since the battles of. the Coral Sea and Midway Island the navy had not,fired a single gun except into the Lexington. Senator Lucas asked whose judgment should be taken, that of Senator Lee or experts on whose training the nation had spent millions. Senator Lee replied that time and time again the army and navy experts had been proved wrong. Hitler overruled his generals and made air-power the spearhead of every successful campaign. ;t‘Weh,” Senator Lucas replied. “Hitler is not going to win this war.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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