DEFEAT OF JAPAN
The Part of Airpower
(10.35 p.m.) HEW YORK, Jan. 8. Air power plays a leading part in the overall strategy for the defeat of Japan, high Arjjjy and Navy officials told a semi-private conference of industrialists and labour leaders. America’s rapidly growing carrier strength will be approximately doubled within a few months. Nothing can stop a carrier offensive when it begins. General Holcomb, a retired commandant of the Marines, defended Pacific island-hopping. He said the Allies must converge on Japan from all directions, one of which lies along the chain of islands leading directly to Japan’s door. The United Nations are going from island to island until the outskirts of Japan are finally reached, but certain amphibious operations will be necessary in preparation for hitting Japan's greatest bastions. The Allies will take as many islands as they need with the least possible expenditure of men, tilne and material.
Vice-Admiral McCain. Deputy-Chief of Naval Air Operations, said Colonel Knox's recent statement that, the United States had more than 40 carriers represented only a fraction of the potential carrier strength.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22786, 10 January 1944, Page 5
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