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Vicious Okinawa Air-Sea Battle
Which George Gates Helped Film
Will Be Shown At Craterian Soon
George E- Gatej, Jr., chief
photographer's mate, USNR,
1307 Queen Anne, Medford, Ore.,
served with the navy combat
photographic mission which
filmed the vicious air-sea battle
for' Okinawa on which the new
official motion picture, "The
Fleet that Came to Stay," is
based.
Produced by Navy Photogra
phic Services, headed by Capt.
Gene Markey, USNR, the picture
will be presented this coming
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at
the Craterian theatre.
First Official Showing
"The Fleet that Came to Stay"
is based on 200,000 feet of film
I taken under fire by 103 navy
combat photographers for tacti
cal study and training purposes
Released less than a month after
Okinawa was secured, it is the
first official two-reel picture
showing the public the bitter
fight against Jap suicide planes.
One photographer lost his life
in the operation, performed un
der the most hazardous condi
tions. Most of the scenes were
shot under direct fire of the
Kamikazes, providing valuable
footage for the study of the
habits, tactics and technique of
the enemy suicide pilots.
"The navy's combat photo
graphers will forever have the I
gratitude of the American peo
ple for their contribution in sav
ing lives of our fighting men,"
according to Lt. Collier Young,
USNR, of Navy Photographic
Services. He is a former scen
ario editor for Sam Goldwyn,
and directed and edited the
film.
Devised By Markey
Methods used in filming the
action were devised last August
by Capt. Markey, in cooperation
with Rear Admiral H- B. Miller,
USN, director of Public Infor
mation, who at that time was on
the staff of Fleet Admiral
Chester W. Nimilz.
Under this plan, a story-board
was prepared and each photo
grapher was briefed on his indi
vidual mission where his battle
station would be and how and
what to shoot.
As the air-sea battle for Okin
awa progressed, with thousands
of Jap suicide planes attacking
the fleet in an all-out effort to
smash our sea-power, the combat
photographers were spotted and
respotted among fleet units so
that every phase would be
covered-
"The Combat Photographers
were not also rans in the
Okinawa operation," Lt. Young
said. "We were there and we
got footage of Kamikazes from
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a few mtnuU of'er first atomic bomb was dropped on the city as smoke
spread over 10,000 feet on target at base of rising column. AAF photo.
every conceivable vantage, in
cluding shots from the beaches
: as the suicide planes attacked
the fleet off-shore."
Jap Units Photographed
Jap carriers and battle units
also were photographed by gun
cameras on planes flying at mast
levels.
Film was rushed to the Fhoto
' graphic Science laboratory,
j where it was processed and made
available for tactical study,
j Within a week after D-Day, the
first footage was made available
for news reels, flown In from the
! Okinawa beaches by Lt. John
' Munroe, USNR, photographic of
ficer. I 'The Fleet that Came to Stay"
went into production immedi
ately, and the form was kept
open until Okinawa was secured,
so that the latest footage could
be included.
! Lt- Julius Epstein, USNR,
! former Warner Brothers screen
writer, was assistant editor,
: while narration is by Lt. Fort
I Pearson, USNR, formerly with
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Lt. Lehman Engle, USNR, noted
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HELP
URGED By SOLON
Washington. Aug. 14 U.R)
Sen. Hugh B. Mitchell, D., Wash-,
today urged immediate resump
tion of peacetime lumber produc
tion. At the same time he asked
that the Office of Price Admin
istration permit higher consumer
goods prices in western areas
during reconversion.
In a letter to Director of War
Mobilization John W- Snyder,
Mitchell proposed the following
four-point program to help the
lumber industry:
1. Immediate release by the
army of all heavy-duty tractors
and cranes earmarked for its use,
to be diverted to the lumber in
dustry by WPB as soon as pos
sible, 2. Immediate relaxation of
restrictions on the lumber indus
try. 3. Immediate reappraisal of
the army's lumber needs, so that
all extra lumber can go to civi
lian building.
4- Revision of War Manpow
er commission hiring rules for
the lumber industry
Mitchell said that, northwest
lumber mills must be put back
into peacetime production at the
earliest possible moment to af
ford employment for vetcrariB
and discharged war workers.
' ICE COHTROL OTT
Washington, Aug. 14 U.B
Because of an Ice shortage on
the west coast due to heavy
movement of military material
and season crops, price control
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roads, express companies and
other caricing users, the Office
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EASING OF TAXES
SEEN EARLY STEP
Washington, Aug. 14 (U.R)
Cancellation of the three per
cent normal tax was viewed to
day as a likely first postwar step
to reduce the individual income
tax burden.
This could be done easily and
could be in effect by Jan. 1
while congress considered more
thoroughgoing tax revisions. j
Repeal of the normal tax i
ligations of persons now paying
up to $39 annually under the
present structure. It would
mean a reduction for all the re-
I mainder of some 50,000,000 tax
payers. I Still standing would be the
heavy surtax which starts at 20
per cent and graduates to 91 per
cent, according to income.
' If the normal tax is repealed,
a family consisting of man, wife,
two children with a gross Income
of $2,000 and a present tax bill
of $39 would no longer pay any
tax.
i Likewise a married couple
with one child and a gross in
come of $1,500 would no longer
pay the tax. The same goes for
a married couple with $1,000 of
Income, In all these cases, none
is subject to surtax.
A man with a $5,500 Income, a
wife and one child would find
1 his tax bill lessened by $135 per
year.
West Pine Lumber
Auction Postponed
Portland, Ore., Aug. 14 (U.R)
A large western pine lumber auc
tion scheduled to be held In Spo
kane tomorrow has been post
poned indefinitely, Lt. Comm. J.
M. Hogg, western pine procure
ment officer for the central
army-navy procurement agency,
said today.
Turn of events In the war was
given as the reason for the post
ponement, Lt. Comm. Hogg said.
FULL RELIEF FOR BOTH
ITALY, AUSTRIA ASKED
London. Aug. 14 (UR)
The United States today asked
the United Nations Reiiof and
Rehabilitation Administration to
put buth Italy and Austria on
"full relief."
The American memorandum
was submitted to a plenary meet
ing of the UNRRA Council by
William Clayton, assistant Sec
retary of State In charge of eco
nomic affairs.
BAR MASS PICKETING
Hollywood, Aug. 14 (UR)
Mass picketing of Samuel Gold
wyn studios by film strikers was
banned today by Superior Judge
Emmet H. Wilson, who said he
would issue a similar order af
fecting Metro-Goldwyn-Msycr.
"Congregation of a large number ,
of pickets is not calculated to ap- '
peal to the reasoning powers of i
persons who come into contact
with the picket line, but is an
nxhibition of force," Wilson declared.
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