BATTLE STRATEGY
FIGHT FOR THE SOLOMONS. (1.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 12 An interesting conjecture about the course of the Solomon Islands battle is offered by the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune.
Quoting an unnamed naval officer, he says the action may nave taken the following form since Friday.— (1) Bombardment of the enemy aerodromes by army and navy bombers and torpedo planes. (2) A struggle for air supremacy. (3) An advance by the heaviest American surface units adding their gunfire barrage to the aerial bombardment and helping to provide a protective curtain for the landing troops. (4) Possible paratroop landings to aid the commandos from transports and barges. (5) Shelling of enemy air and troop bases by cruisers and destroyers plunging towards the shore under an umbrella of aerial and naval fire.
(6) Aircraft-carriers standing by with the battleships, cruisers. *wl destroyers between them and the enemy, sending planes repeatedly against the Japanese. At a meeting of the Pacific War Council at the White House the Solomons battle was the principal subject discussed. Dr. Soong said China was much encouraged bv the offensive and added that the available news of the action' was limited.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 217, 13 August 1942, Page 2
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