MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1942
PAGE SEVEN
PINKLEY TO GIVE
E
United Press Executive
Speaks Here 9 P. M. Sat
. urday Mayfield Presides
Just back from 68,000-mile,
round-the-world tour of fighting
and diplomatic fronts, Virgil
Pinkley, United Press European
manager, will speak at the Med
ford senior high school auditori
um at 9 p. m. Saturday, under
sponsorship of the Medford Mail
Tribune, Rotary club and League
of Women Voters. The public is
cordially invited to hear the not
ed newsman report on his many
thrilling experiences and give an
"inside" picture of the world at
war.
Pinkley, who knows well the
barren desert areas of Libya, one
of the vital battlefields of current
operations will be introduced by
Leonard B. Mayfield, Medford
high principal. A special section
has been reserved for officers
and their wives of the 6 1st infan
try division and the Service Com
mand Unit of Camp Wfiite.
H.dg.-Hopplng Flight
"Just imagine flying at 300
miles an hour, barely 15 or 20
feet off the ground, with winds
whipping your plane about and
swirls of desert sand clouding
your vision," Pinkley said. "Well
that's the sort of thing the RAF
fliers are doing out there In I
North Africa every day. Those
hedge-hopping flying tactics are
one of the new developments of!
desert fighting." j
Pinkley made one such flight!
over German and Italian posi
tions in Libya while directing'
United Press coverage on that!
front.
"I was at one of the advance
air fields, which the British have
titled "perching grounds,' when
an opportunity was offered me to
fly in a Beau Fighter in actual,
combat," Pinkley said. "I ac
cepted the assignment, with only
a vague notion of the kind of ac
tion I was letting myself in for.
Enemy Hates 'Em
"These Beau Fighters are one
of Britain's finest planes and are
hated by the Germans and Ital
ians In North Africa because
they've learned to fear them as
much or more than any other
single item of British equip
ment." Pinkley said the plane roared
Into the air but lifted only about
20 feet above the ground.
"I asked the pilot why we
were flying so low. He explained
that planes flying just above the
ground are almost impossible to
spot until they're directly over
their target and come over at
such close range and at such
speed that the enemy hasn't time
to bring anti-aircraft or machine
guns into action.
Loos Deadly Hall
"Soon I had an opportunity to
see the British fighting tactics
in actual application. Our pilot
spotted a concentration of about
75 Italian trucks. We caught
them unaware and the gunner
opened up. Beau Fighters mount
four air cannon and six machine
guns. That concentration of fire
power enables them to pour out
a deadly hail of 8,00 rounds of
ammunition minute.1
Flying low and at high speed,
Pinkley said, it was almost im
possible to check the effects of
that destructive fire.
"But as we zoomed away," he
added, "we could see men scram
bling for cover in panic and
counted about 20 of the 75
trucks afire. Other Beau Fight
ers following us on each wing
completed the job."
That was but one of many In
teresting and exciting experi
ences of this youthful, globe
trotting, newsgatherer. An ac
complished lecturer as well as a
reporter, he will bring his au
dience colorful first-hand ac
counts from 22 countries which
he has visited during the past
ten months.
BIRTHS
American Secret Weapon
Rips Panzer Divisions in
El Alamein Front Battle
By Richard D. McMillan
United Press Staff Correspondent
(Copyright, 1942 by United Press)
New York, Dec. 18 U.R The biggest surprise of the war
came to the Germans one diy along the El Alamein front,
when there was a series of terrific flashes and big armor-piercing
shells ripped and withered the Nazi panzer divisions.
An American secret weapon,
destined to turn the tide of battle
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in the desert, had gone into ac
tion for the first time.
Marshal Erwln Rommel was
on the approaches to Alexandria,
and the British Eighth army held
a narrow front between the Med
iterranean and a large marsh
when the new weapon was
thrown into the battle. It is a
powerful-hitting, self-propelling
anti-tank gun mounted on the
chassis of a General Grant tank.
It was hastily manufactured in
the United States and was
shipped to the middle east with
such secrecy that few officers
or men in the Eighth army knew
of its existence until the night
before Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery, opened his El Alamein
offensive.
Gunners Trained -
That night they were moved
quickly up to the front lines.
British and New Zealand gun
ners had been especially trained
to operate the guns at stations
miles in the rear of the front
lines. That night, as they rode
up to the front through the dust
of the desert tracks, one of the
gunners said to me: I
"It's the best gun we have
ever handled." j
I watched the guns wheel Into
position and open fire. The shells
ripped through the armor of all
types of Axis tanks German
Ills, Mark IVs and the new Ital
ian Semoventes. The panzer di
visions crumpled under the fire,
their lines dissolved and they
retreated. But they reformed in 1
the rear and came back for more,
hardly believing that any weap- J
on could be so destructive. !
They got another dose of the
same medicine. It was mystify
ing to the Germans, probably
as great a surprise as they re
ceived when the first tanks lum-;
bered toward their lines in the
World War.
Enemy Outranged
The more the British Eighth
armyused the American gun, the
more devastating became the ef
fect on the enemy. The Germans
brought up heavy cannon of their
own In an attempt to silence the
new. weapon, but they found to
their dismay that the American
gun outranged them and that
their own shells were falling
short of British positions.
One great asset the American
guns have is that they can move
rapidly. Throughout the duels
they deployed continually, blaz
ing away all the time.
Even the appearance of the
new gun Is terrifying, particu
larly during night fighting. It
gives off a vivid and impressive
flash as It fires and it has an
unusual shape that in night shad
ows makes it look like a mon
ster waddling over the desert
sands.
I am not permitted to describe
details of the gun, but I can tell
something about how it was con
ceived. An American army offi
cer was sent on a mission to the
middle east to report to Wash
ington on the type of modern
weapons which the British forces
needed to stem Rommel's drive
for Suez and then counterattack.
R.medy Prescribed
During the retreat from the
Gazala line last July I traveled
over hundreds of miles of desert
with this officer.
"The weapon which we need
out here," he told me, "Is a self
propelling anti-tank gun. It. must
have speed so that it can dash in
and fight the enemy panzers
and then dash away again. It Is
the obvious successor to the tank
Itself. The gun is more impor
tant In modern war than the
tank. If you can use a tractored
vehicle to propel under its own
power a hard-hitting, all-purpose
artillery piece, you have the ene
my at your mercy."
interpreted by Attorney General
Piddle to mean things that the
congress never contemplated.
The Democrats do not consider
this cricket.
.
ONE retired congressman who
is not soliciting the White House
for a lame duck Job is Walter
M. Pierce. After three months
at Palo Alto, Pierce will settle
down at Eugene and deliver a
course of lectures on congression
al procedure to students of the
University of Oregon. Over in
another pert of the university,
Cornelia Marvin Pierce, his sec
retary, will be indexing the let
ters, bills and papers which
Pierce has accumulated in 10
years In congress and which he
has shipped to the university.
One of Pierce's final speeches
"for the Record" is burning
criticism of the war production
blocked every attempt to locate
an industrial development in the
Washington-Oregon territory that
will survive after the war.
THIS year National Youth Ad
ministration is spending more
than $61,000,000 in training
young people. Latest figures
show there is an average of 53.
000 of these trainees. NYA Is
conducted by Aubrey Williams,
who, when attached to WPA.
urged the reliefers to work and
vote for the administration in
order to secure continuation of
the flow of relief. NYA was un
der fire when the war came
along and it then became an in
strument to train youth to take
Jobs in aircraft factories ship
yards, etc., training which was
already being done by the in
dustrial plants at their own ex
pense. Before this transformation.
students in high schools, colleges
and universities in the north
west were receiving pay from
NYA to the number of several
thousand. If the economists can
abolish NYA or transfer it to
the bureau of education, which
also has training courses In
schools, the present set-up will
be wiped out completely and
save taxpayers a substantial sum.
It Is expected, however, that the
schools will assist NYA in the
struggle to continue.
LOOKS as though the house
wife will have to prepare berries.
vegetables and fish herself next
of these articles on the table.
And about the time she starts
with the berries the sugar ra
tioning will Interfere. The prin
cipal critical material In can
ning is tin, and that Is now-
precious. To obtain tin for caps
on beer bottles the brewers are
now buying 10-gallon tin buck
ets from restaurants and stamp
ing the caps out of this material.
"Victory" gardens, which were
frowned upon this year because,
it was argued, few people with
such gardens knew how to work
them and therefore wasted seed
and fertilizer, will be advocat
ed by the department of agri
culture next spring and it is
expected more effective effort
will be made to encourage
home canning.
Rome, Dec. 18. (U.R) (Italian
Broadcast Recorded by United
Press in New York) Italian
movements west in the region
of the Gulf of Sirte are con
tinuing, the high command said
board which, he charges, has season if she expects to have any
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today, despite enemy light arm.
ored thrusts at interception.
ine Italian communique said
fighting continued in that region
between armored forces, with
capture of five light trucks and
a few prisoners.
In Tunisia, It was reported,
German and Italian air action
battered enemy motorized col.
umns and. In air duels, seven
enemy aircraft were destroyed.
The harbor of Phiilippevllle
was bombed.
British planes raided the Is
land of Lampedusa, between
Tunisia and Malta, killing two
and wounding six civilians, it
was said. Two British plane
were shot down and one pilot
was captured.
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