Zurich Herald, 1945-06-14, Page 7CLARK GOES COY:
You can almost see the blush rise in the face of Clarke Gable, who
gags with a coy pose, as actress Greer Gerson compliments him on
his record as a captain in the Air Force on his return to Holly-
wood. Gable, who won the Air Medal for bomber action over the
Western Front, is pictured as he made his first appearance before
the camera since his retirement from the Army.
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STAMPS COMMEMORATE TATE PRESIDENT
Postmaster General Frank C. Walker announces the issuance of a
series of four memorial postage stamps as a tribute to the late
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Stamps are issued in denom-
inations of one cent, green; two cent, red; three cent, purple (these
shown above) ; and five cent, blue; and will be special delivery size.
Three cent stamp goes on sale June 27. Others will be announced
later.
WHY OKINAWA ,GOING IS TOUGH
Lar-saassss. sass,
Initial landings were: unopposed, but the enemy was so well-pre-
pared in the south that Yank's early speedy advance was slowed
to about a mile a week because of. ,
, .. long -prepared fortified caves and concealed pill -boxes in the
steep hills. In yard -by -yard advance, Americans literally had to
rout out Japs by hand, with rifle, grenades and flame-throwers.
But capture .
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of one of the series of ridges exposed U. S. troops to intense
mortar fire (Japs' most dreaded weapon) from the reverse slope
and artillery fire from other ridges beyond.
"We must never let Okinawa island fall to the enemy . . . If
we lost it, we would be cut off from the south and it would serve
the enemy as a springboard for the invasion of Japan itself .. ."
So wrote Tokutomi, Jap ;ournalist, And Jap troops on Okinawa
fight accordingly, with hitherto unknown skill and tenacity and
a desperation that cost thein, in the first nine weeks, some 50,000
dead out of the original force estimated at 85,000 men. Photos
above illustrate why the Okinawa campaign proved one of the
grimmest of the war.
WAR GUESTS EN ROUTE TO HOME—AND ENGLAND!
;jFW.@ i% 1 r 1�2^y, ,;..;x. U.iW�wii<:a.: i...>. .nS Fi: c•. . c :.. .. of Lonion College of Divinity, London U'ni a and
t des, If, D, Corcn wife of the principalhavefor their trip home to England on
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i two children train Ruth and Anne 5 v company ren and Royal Air Force dependents from Montreal
their
` ' which took 225 evacuee Iter ntlebury, whose father is Rev. R. M, Scantlebuty,
Pacific Railwayand testes Sca
wereto ship's side on the east Judy, thdywhile the
in the Coggan party. Judy, (third left) lived at the home of Rev. J. S. Harrington; r22 Glen View
Avenue, Toronto, and her brother stayed with Dr. R. Armitage, 20 Queen's Park Toronto,
Coggans were at University of Toronto.
TOTEM TOTER
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He's not trying to qualify as
"low manon a totem pole.
He's just homeward - bound
T/Sgt. Charles M. Paddock of
Oakland, Calif., arriving in Seattle
with a totem pole—souvenir of
his service in the :Aleutians.
PREVIEW OF POSTWAR CAR
This streamlined postwar model -the handmade 1946 Ford car,
not the pretty blonde—will go into production within 60 to 90
days. Although exterior : appearance is similar to pre-war models,
company officials say "sit has many mechanical improvements. How-
ever, average motorists have to wait a year or more to buy one.
FOG -DISPERSING `FIFO' IN ACTION
This first photo to be released on "Operation Fido" (Fog Investi-
gation Dispersal Operations) shows how fog was articially dis-
persed from RAF airfields by lines of burners on each side of
main runways. In the picture, an RAF Lancaster is taking off,
from clear -vision field, though fog hangs heavy up above.
The British public often was
puzzled during the war to read
that raids had been carried out on
Berlin or other places in Ger
many when they knew that over
large areas of England there was
widespread fog. No one knew how
it could be done, but it was sup-
posed that .somehow the pilots had
found an airdrome free from-. fog.
Actually; many landing acci-
dents took place because of poor
visibility and many potential
bombing hours were .lost. And for
a long time it seemed that no
answer to the fog problem could
be found.
Yet, in the end, the Petroleum
Warfare Department found the
answer- It was crude and very
extravagant in gasoline, 'and less
expensive methods will have to
be developed for "FIDO's" use in
peacetime. Yet in wartime, when
costs do not count, "FIDO" was
greeted by British and Ameri-
can fliers with a shout of joy.
By means of that ingenious de-
vice it was possible to de -fog an
airdrome for the taking off of
planes and to allow .the fog to
return after the planes had
landed safely.
The device is a long rectangle
of piping laid around the run-
ways and pierced with small holes
through which gasoline vapor can
be pumped under pressure.. When
ignited this produces a wall of in-
tensely hot flames. Within 10
minutes, the ' blazing heat con-
denses the moist fog to liquid up
to a height of about 100 feet above
the ground.
On July 17, 19.4, Air Vice -Mar-
shal Bennett made four landings on
a completely cleared runway of
130 yards, with the surrounding
country blanketed in fog and with
tinder 200 yards of visibility.
Had it not been for the in-
tensive bombing of Field Mar-
shal Gen. Gerd von Rundstedt's
supply lines in December, 1944,
when fog was almost constantly
over the British Pathfinders'
airdromes, it is possible that the
German push toward Antwerp
-might have succeeded and the
war might have been much pro-
longed. "FIDO" came to the res-
cue and it is exnected to be
equally valuable in 'British peace-
time civil aviation.
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