Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Of a nip stated and of cief 6f Biml has submitted i report to Secretary of the Havy on operations up March praising the United nations conduct of the War As not Only in the extent of its Success but in the smooth working and effective cooperation by which it has been King reviewed the tremendous expansion and strategic re Cord of Navy which a Little Over two years ago was considered to two Ocean demands but now holds the initiative and is pressing a general while primarily concerned with the navys part in the the report emphasized that this wars principal lesson is that modern warfare can effectively be con ducted Only by close and effective of the three arms on on sea and from the he declared the personnel of who in time of peace serve As nucleus for expansion in time of now represent a Small portion of our total number of officers and about 90 percent of our commissioned personnel and about 80 per cent of our enlisted personnel Are naval reserves who successfully adapted themselves to Active ser vice in a comparatively Short Manila was doomed he revealed that the total Navy personnel on including officers and and women but not officer candidates or was compared to on december Marine corps personnel in the same period increased from to and coast guard from to King pointed out that be fore Pearl Harbor potential naval needs in the Atlantic presented by the european situation and atthe same time japans attitude forcing the to keep a major part of its naval strength in the placed the us in an unfavourable strategic position in that our naval forces at that time were not adequate to meet the demands in both oceans should we have been forced into the the sudden and treacherous attack by Japan which resulted in heavy losses to us made our unfavourable strategic position at the outbreak of the War even worst than we had Anticis the even had to not suffered those How out Fleet could not have proceeded to an Many to relieve our hard Jess such an undertaking at that time with tiie Means at hand to carry out and support it would have been submarine War won our armed forces and our auction were not Rulett lately expanded and developed to permit taking an Overall offensive in any we therefore were forced to assume the defensive in both oceans while preparations for amphibious War were by the Spring of 1943 the War against German submarines in the Atlantic had turned in our favor and we were fully on the offensive in that we had built up to our strategic require mets for the support of our army ground and air forces overseas and the reinforcement of British naval forces guarding against an outbreak of surface coincident with this expansion and the Gen eral increase in our strength there was a rapid buildup in forces employed in the at the outbreak of the War with Japan we were initially placed on the defensive but while we were so engaged we made All preparations to seize the initiative As soon As actions in the Coral sea and at Midway did much to wrest the initiative from the enemy Ernest King and slow Down further our first really offensive operation was the seizure of Guadalcanal in this Campaign was followed by a general offensive made possible by an increase in our amphibious forces and in our naval forces in which has continued to gain momentum on the entire Pacific six new battleships at the end of the enemy had been cleared from the had been pushed Well out of the had been ejected from the Gilberts and West Ern marshalls and was being at tacked elsewhere and forced to adopt a defensive delaying Stra meanwhile our own positions in the Pacific had been at the end of there we were in a position to sup port our which had been on the offensive from the be Gin incr of the with Strong naval forces and some ground air forces not needed on the european a similar situation exists in the Atlantic in that the sea lanes Are under our control and we Are definitely on the offensive in that Admiral King disclosed that six battleships have been put in ser vice since Pearl Harbor said that construction of aircraft carriers represents one of the most spectacular phases of the naval shipbuilding the Carrier strength of the Navy on was seven firs line vessels and one escort a converted merchant by the end of 50 carriers of All types had bran put in service and in addition a Large number of escort carriers had been transferred to great bigger carriers on Way this remarkable record in construction enabled us in a single year to build up our Carrier strength from the Low Point reached in when the a Enterprise and Ranger were the Only ships of our Fleet Carrier forces remaining to the position of Clear superiority in this the availability of several ships of the Essex a considerable number of carriers completed months ahead of sche Dule in 1943 contributed to the Success of our operations in the Southwest aided materially in checking the submarine menace in the Atlantic and enabled us to launch an offensive in the Central Pacific before the end of the a Large proportion of Essex class carriers have joined the nearly All carriers of the Independence converted from Light have been it was planned to supplement these two Basic types of Carrier with a substantially larger than our pre sent which will displace tons and will be capable of handling bombing planes larger any which have heretofore operated from the decks of air Craft they will Forfar More armed than smaller carriers and will be much less vulnerable to bomb and torpedo at one of our most important achievements has been the land ing Craft construction had Only a few thousand tons category when we entered the in the second half of 1942 almost a Quarter tons of Landing Craft were produced and the figure increased to Well Over a third of a million tons for the first half of fighters deadlier lessons Learned in Battle have been incorporated in the design of combat new naval aircraft have larger More increased Protection for both Crew and plane and greater fire Power than models in service at the time of Pearl the Grumman Wildcat which served with distinction through the first of the War has been largely replaced by two new fighters the Vought Sikorsky Corsair and the Grum Man those two planes Are Superior to anything the japanese summing up ther wars Progress to King in the euro Pean theater our forces have taken part in driving the enemy out of Africa and shared in the liberation of Sicily and the invasion of Italy which resulted in its Capi the russian turning against the germans in an irresistible has driven them Back to the Borders of Poland and France has been Given new instead of being daily target for German air great Britain has become the base an air offensive against the heart of the Axis on a scale which dwarfs the greatest German at tacks of the the German sub Marine Fleet has been reduced from a menace to a the encirclement of Germany is in numerical superiority ours in the Pacific theater the Jap after their attack on Pearl advanced with impressive Speed through the Philippines and East indies into the Solomon islands in the general direction of Australia and new Zea following these successful advances they effected landings in the Aleutian islands and attacked the japanese Advance was almost As abruptly As it had our Suc ceases in the in the Cen trial Pacific and in the Northern Pacific Are now matters of record and we have had time to build up strength and test our experience we have mastered and improved tech Nique of amphibious operations in which the japanese were so proficient in the Early Days of the our army and Navy Force have Learned How to fight As one we have Learned How to make the most of what we have but it is no longer necessary to ask our Cudini ilanders to get along As Best they can on inadequate numerical inferior ties which were so pronounced in the Java sea Campaign and in subsequent actions in the Solomons have been our submarines and planes Are cutting deeper and deep into vital japanese shipping and our fleets move in the Central Pacific Japan will not be directly under attack As Germany is Bow until the Citadel area of that pm Island and is under our threat or control but current and prospective Circum stances in the Pacific must be As dark and threatening to Japan As they Are full of Promise to both in Europe and in the Pacific Long roads still lie but we Are now fully entered on those fortified with imbued with Confidence and determined to travel to Vic Tor was taken spot second into this Small Jap warship at escape 5th air Force death dealing off m after repeated direct the Jap War its motor becomes easy prey for the formation of now coming in for the this dramatic closeup photog pfc of the victim the heavy damage Causer by the accuracy of the bomber this Tab toting into which enveloped her before own Lucky Farmers own army officials Are planning now for releasing to Farmers military equipment no longer useful to the armed trucks and fencing Are highest in Senate okays Navy Bill Washington who of a dissenting the Senate passed and returned to the House the 32 Bulious Dollar Navy appropriation army dogs Uri Okay eight dogs which were trained at army remount centers months ago Cave proved their selves valuable in the army the dogs led composed it Diers and m for 200 japs without for either tip dogs of single Jar Jap Jungle