The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 24, 1944, Image 2
Though most Americans wouldn’t
believe their ewes if they saw it, the
plane known as the Fairey Sword
fish is one of the mainstays of Brit
ain’s Fleet Air Arm.
Every time a Swordfish goes roar
ing down the flight deck of a carrier
and claws its way aloft, the pageant
of man’s conquest of the air is lived
again for a few tense seconds. For,
to the casual spectator, a Swordfish
flying off to battle in this war looks
about as efficient and dangerous as
a crossbowman on his way to tackle
a squad of Commandos.
A Swordfish is a large, gangling
biplane. It would fit comfortably
into any movie sequence of the peri
od 1917-1918. The wings and fuse
lage are covered with fabric, which
is originally painted in shades rang
ing from gray to bine, but because
every Swordfish invariably has a
light rash of patches on its skin, the
general result is a sort of mottled
shade.
Thp patches are the result of a
.curious hazard in a Swordfish’s life.
After some service, the fabric be
comes brittle, and curious visitors
find that their fingers inadvertently
punch holes in the wing surface.
Also, in a dive or tight turn, the
fabric covering sometimes flutters
in an unpleasant, nervous fashion.
Fleet Air Arm pilots, both in af
fection and alarm, call these planes
Stringbags.
The space between the two wings
is pretty well filled with struts and
wires and such, and back by the
tail a lot of wires come out of the
fuselage and run to the control sur
faces. The fuselage itself is a long,
narrow structure. The three open
cockpits start immediately behind
the following edge of the upper wing,
the pilot in the first, the observer in
the second, the aerial gunner in the
last. So the Swordfish looks and
sometimes acts like something out
of a mail-order catalogue.
Aerial Hide and Seek.
Yet, regularly, stories come back
on how these planes can muddle
through. For example, in the Nor
way campaign a Stringbag from the
Ark Royal found itself on the busi
ness end of a Hcinkel 111. The
Swordfish, however, came back to
its carrier with nothing worse than
a slight case of dizziness aboard.
The pilot merely dived down on a
Norwegian mountain and then flew
in tight circles around it. The Hein-
kel couldn’t cut corners so sharply,
so he finally gave up and flew away.
As a matter of fact, one school of
Swordfish philosophy argues that the
incredibly slow speed of the aircraft
is an asset. The fast-attacking en
emy aircraft simply cannot slow
down enough to get in an efficient
burst.
The Royal Navy calls its Sword
fish torpedo-spotter-reconnaissance
aircraft. Every carrier in the fleet
has flown them off to seek the en
emy and, if possible, get a torpedo
into him. To be a naval success a
plane must have a quick takeoff, a
low landing speed, and carry a
heavy load. And that is where the
lumbering Swordfish excels.
There is no sense in trying to
make a silk purse out of a Stringbag.
It is painfully slow and awkward
and ugly. Its performance has
guaranteed that as long as the war
lasts there will always be a Sword
fish. It has a great record behind
it. On many and curious missions
this strange craft has proved its
worth. The crews who fly the
Stringbags have developed an odd
and somewhat contemptuous affec
tion for their planes.
Italy’s Bad Luck
Swordfish flew into the Italian fleet
at Taranto, putting three battleships
out of action and changing the bal
ance of naval power in the Mediter
ranean. They bombed Genoa early
in the war, covered countless Malta
convoys and put torpedoes into the
French fleet at Oran. Again, Sword
fish were down in the Channel fog
looking for the Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau when the German ships
made their dash from Brest. That
time only a few came back.
But it was in the wintry North
Atlantic that the. Swordfish did its
greatest job. Stringbag torpedoes dis
abled the Bismarck so that the sur
face fleet could close in for the kill.
Stringbags have also engaged in
extracurricular activities. At the
time of Dunkerque, some of them
were sent over the French and Bel
gian coasts. So they flew up and
down the coast in tight formation,
pretending to be fighter coverage
for the troops below. Apparently
they got away with it, too.
In another case a Swordfish was
turned into a fighter when, after the
two machine guns were emptied, an
observer drew his revolver and as
saulted an attacking Italian plane
with that. The Italian flew home
across the Mediterranean.
Map shows two roads back to Tokyo—one via conquest of the Marshalls, Truk, the Caroline group
Bonin. The other is directed at the Philippines.
Up and Coming People Make Today’s News
Now that so many wives and mothers are engaged in war work, men are learning to cook. Picture at left
shows Carlton Roll, student at a cooking school for men, just opened in New York. Center: Miss Mary Freteh,
whose suggestions for speeding up production have saved 2,500 man hours a year in one plant, receives special
award from Donald M. Nelson, head of WPB. Right: Merrill Wolf, 12, youngest student ever enrolled at Yale.
Life Goes Merrily On in Burma
‘Young Democrat’
A tiny half-dressed Burmese girl gets an early education on how to
carry on, in spite of being homeless and poverty-stricken. She is helping
her mother sift rice near the rough shelter they call home. Right: A pretty
Burmese nurse feeds a tasty bit of food to Capt. John Colling of San Fran
cisco during a jungle picnic somewhere in Burma.
Senators Live a Day on Army Rations
Five of the senators who agreed to subsist on army rations for a day
are shown lunching on the field chow that keeps our boys going in the battle
cones. Rations were distributed to the other senators by Sen. Styles
Bridges (N. H.) who queried them on their reactions. The senators are,
I. to r., Weeks (Mails.), ■fjjmson (Colo.). Uriybank (S. C.), Gurney (S. D.),
and Bridges, .
Who’s News
This Week
By
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release,
N EW YORK.—The Nazis talk of
scrambling out of Finland to
» w safet y in
Norway Wat Hu Norway and
Big Chance and He maybe they
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escape will bring them closer to the
day when they must scramble out
of Norway, too, and when their Po-
lizeifuehrer Wilhelm Redeiss must
end his dark, savage rule there, he
and the renegade Jonas Lie.
The story of Redeiss is hard
to get at. Revealed details are
few and most of them from
sources which, to be mild, are
unfriendly to all Nazis. But
when the bias is winnowed out,
the scanty record is cheap when
it is not ugly.
He was born in 1900 at Heinsberg,
close by the Dutch border and raised
in a decent, church-going family.
Dull in school, he was worse when
apprenticed to an electrical engi
neer. Fellow workers in the shop
rounded on him quickly for habits
which were later alleged against the
murdered Ernest Rohm. These hab
its, however, did not slow up promo
tion after he joined the Nazis.
First he was in the Hitler-
Youth movement. Then he
drummed up rookies for the la
bor camps. Then he swung a
blackjack in the Nasi militia. At
last he hit the jackpot, he was
accepted in the S.S., Hitler’s own
Elite Guard. This corps of maul
ers gave him work right up his
alley. He got to be a regional
group leader, and then was re
warded first with membership in
the Prussian parliament and
then with a seat in the Charlie
McCarthy Reichstag.
In Norway, at 43, he holds the
rank of police general. And there,
according to Underground reports,
his Gestapo command includes a se
lect inner circle of troopers having
records and habits like his own.
'T'HE quisling Jonas Lie is Redeiss’
native head of police. Lie’s coun-
. trymen call
Jonas Lie, Kin of him Judas.
The Poet, Labeled His is one of
Jadat of Norway
names in
Norway, worn once by one of the
country’s fine poets. It is a grand
son of the poet who has sold out to
the Nazis. Of his rule, and of
Redeiss’ super-rule the Swedish
newspaper Arbetaren said:
“One feels ashamed to belong
to the human race when one
hears of such horrors. No beast
would be as bloodthirsty as these
men who revel in torture.” And
the Svenska Dagbladet, some
times sympathetic to the Nasi
cause, added: “Only a categori
cal denial (of these charges) by
the German authorities could
help here. We have waited in
vain for such denial.” ■'
Neither Berlin nor Redeiss ever
said "Aye” or “No” but a year ago
Redeiss moved to fasten his con
demned rule more securely on the
land by building up a Norwegian
copy of the S. S. which had trained
him so well. He called it the S. S.
Norge. He wanted 500 Norwegians,
Aryans only, who would obey or
ders. He settled for 200. He finally
found that many believers in Ger
many’s ideal, although they were
not all truly quislings. Many of them
despised Quisling.
Pretty Mrs. Dorothy McElroy
Vredenburgh, 27-year-old Alabama
leader of the “Young Democrats,”
shown upon arrival in Chicago.
Battlefront Baby
An Italian baby boy Is pictured
here playing In the sand outside
his grass home, near Anzio, Italy.
Their original home was destroyed
in the battle for the beachhead. >
'T'HE American navy races east-
-*• ward across the Pacific with
, „ , its big guns
if Seems Thu Jap pounding lik^
Puppet Thrivet on Thor’s ham-
Phon.,DMinaion.
that Jose Paciano Laurel, Japan’s
puppet, hurriedly declares a state of
national emergency in his mutinous
Philippines.
Laurel is the callous able traitor
who chummed up with the Japanese
long before it seemed they had a
chance at all in the islands. Their
way of life charmed him in con
trast to that of his own people, and
of the American way of life which
he studied at Yale university.
At Yale his own way of life
charmed nobody. One professor,
lately recalling his campus perform
ances, said he was a perfect rotter.
Another nailed the description with
a story.
The story is that Laurel came to
Yale in 1920 for a post-graduate de
gree of doctor of jurisprudence.
There was a mix-up and what lau
rel got was a diploma calling him a
doctor of civil law, a far higher dis
tinction which he didn’t deserve by
half. The university noted the slip,
and asked Laurel to trade but he
said, “By no meansl”
According to sound reports Laurel
sported the phoney sheepskin for all
to see on the wall of his Manila
office.
Since September Laurel has held
another phoney distinction. He has
been president elect of the republic
Japan schemes to establish in the
Philippines as soon as order has
been established. It can hardly be
classified as a safe office. Nine
months ago, when Laurel was only a
puppet administrator, he was shot
twice on a Manila golf course. The
man who pointed the rifle was never
found.
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Perhaps It Was the Way
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atrocious beyond words, fdaren’t
say a word about it, and dared
hardly look at it, but as she went
out I went to the window to have
another look and—”
At this juncture his wife entered
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“And,’ continued Smith, “they
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And Mrs. Smith still does not
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