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VOLUME 57
CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, MAY 11.^.1945
NUMBER 8
This Put America Into Global Warfare
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ef Die U88 8kaw.
the harher
This waa I
Strategic Bonding
Softened Europe
Soon after midyear IMl, the ne>
ecMity of empt^teg all avaUrtlc
Allied air power to bold off the (3er*
nan attacks oo Britain dfanhilehed.
tag
the other hand, rapidlj increaa>
gmnhera of planee and pOota
baaed on lalee’gtravid'
cd the opportunityldr^rfle^w *0-
tioo. The time waa not tipeBit'ffit
mad invaaioa ef ereatemM
n the meantime, a aoftaninf up
potess waa determined upon, by
seans of strategic bombing of im*
jartant enemy obJectiTea.
IheM included shipyarda and auh*
marine bases, mince, factories,
docks and warehouses, canals, rail*
iMd yards and airports. The pair
ten of attack caliM first for de>
atniction of plane factories and air
defenses to reduce aerial opposiDon.
Then industrisd and communication
D^ectives were to dealt with.
Inject damage to houses, sewers,
streets and so on sdao hampered war
production in Germany and Nazi-
occupied countries. Success in these
raids often had the effect at disnq;>t'
iBf a distant fnmt
Nasis Shift to Fighters.
By the end of 1043, the Allied
bombing offensive had forced the
German air force to put the em-
phuis on fighter planiee—in other
words, to go on the defensive, and
actically to abandon, their own
tnbing tactics. During the same
pwiod, British and American plane
^gn improved rapidly in all
categories.
Most notaMe, perhaps, was the
American Flying Fortress that could
Pi^>tect itself on long misstois witl^
•ul fighter escort, ff need be. Me
dium and light bombers, as well as
Belters, exceeded the Nazis in per-
fcnnance.
Daring IMS mere thaa 4,IM
German plaaes ware shei Aewe
during raids. By early INd, the
I'Sftwafle treqemrtiy effered IB-
Ge or no appesitten. It evente-
Dly became apparent thet tte
Nmainlag planes ef the Oermnn
*ir force were being snred far
greeter perlle.
Industrial Targeta.
Strategic bombing stretchad in an
•▼w^idening arc over Europe. The
to dOO mile zone inchidtag key
J^an cities such as Lmcck,
mimberg, ^uttgart, Roetodi, Le^
Berlin, and the Skoda wmka
Q Qecboslovakin, end the nortncm
]^an industrial cities of Milan, Tu-
f« and Genoa were*poundcd freely
tod often.
.1*^® Gritiah RAF depended upon
dght bombing with huge plane*—
jncastera, flings and HaUfazea.
^ American air force made
daylight -raida in For
and Ubemtors, using Die
^ bombeight tor eccuratc bomb-
Bg from great altitudes. The Brit-
to ^, American eyatema were
yplemeptaiv, not eotnpeDDve.
Armi^ the clock*’ bombing in eei^
risM ripped airdroroee, factoriea
“~^er objectivea abnoet at wilL
“wlin in particular waa pburtered
w many dnyt. A large pert of Die
of the invasloo of Franee is
* to tha long aoftenhig up pro-
2® Wied oa by Dm almoet in-
dari^ liars of the Amer
p aad BriD* air loroee.
Dimkirk Withdrawal
Was Masterpiece
Of Military Daring
Realtaing that the wnall Britiah
force ia ftance and Belgium in the
spring of 1940 could not bops to stem
^ si^ Oennsn advance that was
enuMng French resistance, the Brit
ish eonmanders ordered a retreat
91 Dm channel ports. On May, 20,
|94Q^ u^ of Ibe^ British (riepeditkm-
began movlXig tosmrds
Oslend and lekirugge. Belgian and
Fruich tooops semCnad ^ with-
drasral
By the 23rd, Germdh armored cgl-
had thrust through to the chan
nel ooest, hemming in the Britiah,
French and Belgian troops. On the
Wh, the Belgians 8urrei^tore4, end
Die British a^ a few French units
had to fall back to tha neighborhood
of Dunkirk, e medium-cized riian-
nel port. *
By the 30ft it was obvious that
there eras nothing for the Britiah to
do but to try to get home to Eng
land, sridch would aoon be in dan-
gar. So, abandoning tteir heavy
equipin^L Dm 300,000 men of the
BEF hastened to the waterfront end
began embarking in any ship they
could find. So began the eidc srith-
drewal of Dunkirk.
OolwtaDt Bemhardmenk.
Under constant bombardment end
atsalBag fromDmCtormao air tonee,
aavareD aa submarinee end destroy-
ece, the British piled into any sort
if craft Diat would float Mm came
back to Inland in rowboats, ferry
boats, private yachts, coUepeihlea,
and fishing boats, and of course,
treopehipe end naval veasels.
Many of these craft had bemi ob-
tabled from private citizens who
risked their Uvea and crafts to sail
ftrir veeeele through the dioppy
channeL
The Royal navy and Royal Air
force did ftelr best to protect Die
of boats in tte channel.
Fbrtunetely fog hampered the Nazi
aomcAhat hut the boats that
reached ^ i»>gn«h coast had been
md*** almost constant attack for
hours. The Germans, knowiilg that
Britain would bs almost defenseless
if Dm men who were in the boats
were destroyed, made extreme ef-
jorts to kill as,many as possible.
Because of the stout British de-
leoasi and Die feet thet so many
miscelleneous craft were diapatdied
to evacuate the BEF, the Germane
faOed. ,
All during the SOth and 31st boats
end tfiip* streamed back and forth
acroaa the channel, end by the tret
of June the moat remarkable with
drawal is history had been accom-
pliahtd. Only a few Dioueand of the
BEF were captured by Die Nezia.
of the sorely needed force was
aafely returned to Englend.
1941 Saw America '
Plunged Into War
Ai JapMi Struck
The year IMl wee e Ueek one for
the democreUc netione at the world.
^ Englend impatiently eAcd Die
United Statee i^en we were coming
in, while we went out of our way M
the effort to stay out of the war and
mind our own business.
In the spring at 1941, the GeipaM
invhded Jugoelavie end ditBe
BrIDrii cut of Greece, after Mua^
Uni’s troops were run ragged by m
popriy equipped Greeks.
Tilings had reached such a pesa
thet Rudolph Heas, the ”d^ty
furiirer,” flew to England end pare-
ohuted to safety with what is reli
ably reported to have been peace
plans for a beaten England.
German paratroopers took the
strategic Islend of Crete ami it
looked aathough nothing could atop
the all-powerful sweep at Axis arms.
BSDer Tams sa Bassla.
But Hitlfr, balked in the west by
England’s stubbornness, decided to
attack Ruasia.
On June 22, 1941, again without a
previous declaration of war, HiDer
sent his troops storxnlag into Russia
In the old familiar pattern of the
bUtz.
In the early days of that campaign
in the cast, everything foBowed ^
Beat pattern drawn for It by ttte odd
miUtary acientiste of the German
general staff—the Pruolans of an
cient war lineage, and the riithless
Nazis who put into practice what
Dicy bad learned in Spain, Pdand,
France, the Netherlands and Bel
gium.
Russia was supposed to fall in
Duree weeks, or at the most, Diree
mopths. It was popularly suppoaed
to be an awkward giant, but
damsy on ite feet and una^ to
stand up against the repeated body
blows of ^ smaller but efficient
German war machine. .
Japaa Btrikee U. 8.
While the Germans swept into
Russle and cloeed in on achedule,
Japan was readying a sneak attack
of her own. \
On December 7, 1941, Dm Japs at
tacked Dm U. & militi^ and naval
basts at Peari Harbor and knocked
ns, arlDi one foul bkrw, Into Dm fnid-
dle of the world war.
jnoi 1941 drew to A doie, wiDi Dm
Germans winning In Dm betUe
egdnst Rosria, and the confident
Jap mffltary madiine moving stead
ily and rtmoraelsaaly to Hs ob)*^
tlv*-4fae complete auldugaDm of
Dm western Pacific and a Japansoe
of Aala.
The United Statee was in the war,
hut Ik waa in a defensive rde and
WM not supposed to be able to do
anything offenaive bdbre everything
would be over in Europe and we
weuld be alone againsk Germany,
Italy and Japep. »
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War No." 1
HONOR ROLL
OUlam A. Hall
James Q. Bailey
Sidney N. King
Ben D. Abbott
Pat W. Davis
Maaaenburs Trotter
Walter M. Lloyd
Walter Johnson
Henry T. Brown ,
Willie K. Humphries
John F. Arthur
H^laon H. Stokes
Walter M. West
Stephen B. Richards
Forman Hilton
Cleveland Outlaw
James Leroy Belk
Eben J. McLeod
^endel L. Gladden
'"Joseph J. Boone
Bratton deLoach, Jr.
Alfred Burden
SwlUle Hinson
Henry T. Cook
Malcolm A. Bateman
War No. 2
HONOR ROLL
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Edward 8. Lorlck
Calhoun Ancrum
Fred a WUliams
John F. Jenkins, Jr.
John M. VUlepigue, Jr.
Clyde L WOllanM
. Paul Jordan
Thomas 8. Rendrlz
Thomas Racine West
Albert H. IsbeU
WUUam C. Mackey
WnUam B. Baxley
Francis C. Tmesdale
Henry Clement Rabon
James E. Cureton
Robert Hinson .
Bdmsn Roberts
Iknle L. Hinson
Reese B. HaU
Ivey K. Connell
James Talley Shirley
' - WllUam A- Grozton
OUs Linton
Woodrow F. Sanders
Ghrlstophft: jp. Vsaghn
WUUam J. Brown
Oeorge Edward Dixon, Jr.
Parvis B. Morgan ^
Andrew O. Whltaksr, Jr.
MUton a Horton
Harvey McKensle
Hugh Oodwin
— LaugfOBlRgbOQ
Vernon HaU
James Raymond Outlaw
Thomas C. Snyder
Robert L. Warr
Qilbert E. Roberts
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Wilber L. Roberts
Wesley E. Faiilkenberry
Joseph S. Hough
David W, Reynolds
Prank S. I>uRu8e
'Willis Banyon Ford
James N. Sowell
.Raymond L. Truesdale
Arthur T. Simpson
Lemuel Charles Robertson
Berkley Sowell
. Hugh M. Gettys
William R. Marsh
William T. Lindenzwelg
James C. Munti
James Clyburn Thorne
Roscoe F. Raker
Amos Gregory
Harold Ray Boykin
Everett Shaw
Henry Bryant Holland
Curtis R. Ralley
John Clyde Dixon
BKpesl Z. Baskins
Marvin Petty Henry
COLORED
Henry Drakeford
Boykin Stoney, Jr.
Theodora R. Cooper
Pinkney Alexander
REPORTED MISSING IN
ACTION
WUUam McCoy
Dmsr BUIs 9
Arthur W. Hunter
Alva J. Rush, Jr.
Robert L. Preltag
John Gary Sowell
Claude B. Motley
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REPORTED PRISONERS OP
WAR
Clarence F. Rlgglna
Mendel L. Threatt
Wesley Davis '
James B. Gardner
Oharles A. Shsrflsld
■dwln Estrldgs
Burrell Oepehart
Hughey Tlndal, Jr.
Harvey Davis
L. J. VlUMM
QuUford Colvin —
O. C. Watte
Stephen R. MoCrae
Murdock L. Outlaw
John McCoy '
Lemuel Clyde CoateS
KILLED IN KERSHAW CO.
Oeorge Jamte Pritchard
English Army
8-8gt R. H. Calahan
U. S. Army
Pfc. Arthur Elliott
D. 8. Army*
Cpl. CarroU Hedlind
U. S. Army
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Victory Ends
" Long Rule by
Military Might
Combined Strength of United
Nations Drives NaziUm
To Defeat.
Victory for the Allies in
Europe — the most anxiously
avfaited event in modern his
tory—means the liberation of a
continent which has been under
the domination of military might
ever since the German blitz
rolled into Poland in the fall of
1939.
Starting with Hitler’s blood
less conquests of trusting neigh
bors, the threat which has hung
over the world has finally been
dissipated by an overwhelming
superiority of the Allies in meft,
materials, air power, sea power
and the overwhelming desire of
free peoples to rid the world of
the tyranny which has “blacked
out the lights of Europe.”
The Allied victory und the capltu-
Ution of Germany has once more re
stored freedom to Europe. Victory
is sweet after the period of despotism
which hss prevsiled but, as in 1918,
fts world must appreciate that vic
tory is one of arms alone so far
and must be foUowed by a peac*
that will ensure the world against
anything like the rise of National
Socialimn again.
JuM lavssloa Started IL
Today the AUlcs have baaten Ger
many to her knees, something that
waa beyond the comprehension of
most of the world litUe leea then a
year ago. The invaakm of Europe
' started it in June, 1944, and tha
I quick success in France and tha
drlva to the heart of the relch iteelf
blasted the theory of a “European
fortress’’ that Hitler said waa im-
pregnabla.
Battle-hardened veterans of Brit
ain who stopped Rommel in Egypt,
the husky young Yanks in their su
perb equipment, Frenchmen fight
ing, to win back their homeland, tha
bitter Polas who remembered how
they tried to fight the Wehimacht
with nothing but rifles—aD these are
responsible for the downfall of udiat
was supposed to be an “invincibla”
army.
And hammering away on tha other
■ide of Geringny were the Russians,
who took the best the Germans could
strike them with, and then cam#
back to drive the hated Hun out at
Russia and beat him back until
Diere was no retraat and there flniah
off Germany as a military power.
The victory in Europe is won but
what years of suffering that conti
nent has seen since the day that
Adolf Hitler first became chancellor
of Germany in January, 1933.
An Ingenioua method using col
ored chillk to mark off secti^
of flocce an one shk o< a sha^
haa aided edentiste of the U8DA M
developing a stepie fit
maem at naol samiwtog, wtua
tound Diat a sample from ft* aide ef
a ihaep was d^ly itms*^tiy
^ ft* mtir* Seece aad woiufl Jpv
Dm aniiD*!* deMta to
1 a* hxeadars.
Th* most tanpurtant Diinga to
kr stlacting a farm ara dk
toil, topqpraphy, markets,
■dbditicn and ad^u^ of building
■al improvaxsanta, availability of
gaod roads aad oDmt public
MMS, tad wbatbar Dm term will
Met a
teaQy
to mak* a good ttriaf,'
THANKS, MR. REASONOVER
The Chronicle acknowledges with thanks and
deep appreciation the cooperation of Marvin Reas-
onover, Service Officer of the Leroy Belk Poet No.
17, American Legion, ih the compilation of the
above record of tihose who made the suiM'eme sacri
fice in the No. I World War and the present global
conflict, also for those who are reported missing or
prisoners of war.
President Osmena Predicts
Japs Will Be Hard Jo Beat
Atlantic Charter
Set Allied Goal
For ^Better WorUf
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Prcsidciit
Sergio Osmena of Die Philippinsa,
in process of complate recon
quering from the Japanese and frmn
which General
Douglas Hao-
Arthur’a land
^forces under Ad
miral Cheater
Nimitx will
swing into final
action against
tha anemy, to
day issued a
statement in be-
half.. of the
Mighty SeTenft
War Loan.
President O*-
mana's stata-
mant was r*-
by Briga-
diar Ganaral
CarlMP. Romulo,
laaidant cowimJ*-
rieoar of Dm PhiUpdnes to Dm
^feitod States, at Dm Iftilippin* of-
i*a* bar*. Prsaktent Osm^ aaldr
dbytii
during
a long and hard
MM 1mv« b*«i pushes' to
k at ovcfWbelmiM defsat
«id of Dm war in iSnrap* is
' la e*g*»*
*llaadla« to aay, wa Filipinos art
wtDi Dm signal
Dm UmadStates
^ Dm.
Establishment of democratic gov-
emmanL promotion of world pro*-
parity through fraa access tc^trada
and raw materials, and dtearma-
ment of aggressor nations to main
tain peace—these U. 8. and Britiah
ambitions for a better world were
officially expressed ia Die historic
Atlantic Charter drawn up by Pres
ident Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill early in August, 1941, on
the high seas off the North Amer
ican coast
In their declaration of principles,
been no leas impressive. Under Dm! Gm two leaders avowed ftelr coun-
leaderahi]
_ p of audi man as
Oeneraf MacArthur and Admiral
Nimitx, Dm Japanese have been dis
lodged from one poritioo after an
other in their Ql-gottea emphra. In
Dlls couMction, my people and I
^t^ ft
arc
that Dm
Philkipines are now being liberated
from ft* tyrannical nua of th*
«n*my.
**Eappy as I am Diet my coimtry
will soon be able-to live in peace
again, much remaiiM to be done be-
foN Japan is fully beaten. Aside
from Die additional campaigns whidi
win ba needed to obtain military
victory in the Pacific, there is
Dm human factor to ba cmisidered
in Diet other peoples at the Far
eagerly await to be freed from Die
enemv. We Filipinos know only too
wen from eiqleiienc* what it meant
to ba under Japanaae dominatioii.
**Ona of Dm outstanding feat* of
th* war has undoubtedly b*an Dm
effective fariikwi in whidi the United
States has overcome ^ formidable
obstacles of distance in siqiplying the
Padfle. Lares quantities offuppliea
win be needed, however, to
the final omshlne blows against a
ruthlaas andianattcal aapoiy. AB at
le can make certain that Dmpt sup-
pas* are availabl* tor our armad
tries’ disinterest in territorial ag
grandizement, and also pledged to
work with tmaUer nati^ in tha
realization of their broad objectives.
Dsa by givfaig anthttsiaatic support,
to Dm wrvMft War Driv*.**|
Aid for Russians.
Was Big Topic in
Casablanca Talks '
With Mrii military and diplomatle
diiattains in attendance {Resident
Rooaavah and Prims Minister
Churchin met at Casablanca, Janu
ary 14, 1943, for a ten-day confer-
anca at which plans were laid for
operations agai^ the Axis hi £»>
rope and incmased aid to Ruasia.
fiWkaiik fta aanferaes looked
to^fta lavasloB of Fraaea, Dm
tanmadiata mOttary signlllesaaa
af Dm maatiBg lay to Dm rapids
aanfaaal af the Medtterraaaaa
area aad snbseqacnt eaas-
pidgn to Dm Itallaa thaater. Dip-
toautio algidieaae* lay to
Italy’a Msaaditlensl sarrindas
awl m anIfiaaDea af fta Frea
Franah and FraMk Narth Mt-
rlaaa fareaa.