Newspaper Page Text
T TEIES WA
i Hf 4‘i { e .‘.t::i: .
R U PR e} ‘ ; (OBN §_%4 ;, 4 eol
| IR 3 8 Wi R Vi - ;
f e v (b O
waßk . iEt e f A W . ' Er ¥
?:v_‘» e N ”‘2 i 8 { R R™ A
p 3 ¢ | S ; :‘,,;; 3 iN | 5 e % 7y 2
. i Qfig‘ " i é . .i ¥ B 3
- g -.»kdz;;«-‘,o e R T A SN i T .
R PSR R ARy \
N BTN o L S &5 5
AR NS YRR RN k]
£ AR TR RERE g, 1
i BREATORE KBS P 4 ol
5 #RES A TR A B p
G Rt et RTR eRS S
et R B U T S )
£ *¥ ¥%§ 3 *‘}‘i“ ALY
ko jmx” Fod st e B - .
o *«-_.;;:,,«;g- i 3 g,k‘,_,;hfi.&‘fg At 7 )
BRSNS sBLN S E T I TR SR 1} 8
{vg ATk Tl o 5, R S
BY R N T T ‘:f" el v B 4 > ¥
ok fj,;&’&‘%@ff‘ 1A
R G R A SRS S b e T
2 ol 8 B ¢ e T § )
Stk LS N | #5508 . & Y AN ’ A
Mo R VS ax % } TR |
Lo R a 0 el 3 ot
SDR R oSI SRI A I ; o i
DR L R R R L
%’t3 A ‘i‘.',‘a 3y ’}, Al el f;: T ¥
i e ey & | e
AT sfi“;{&"(. SHRBYTY, EL N
ok eLS S el 4 ; s
Sl se R e e Rl
:3’&- b g # o 7 i ; Y o |
eLo S DB e ; $ ‘
L;ote 8 e s ‘
([ 5 1 SOT O TR B A S AT G B R PR A
:‘(%n".’ qv’_ g ; _s’ ,(1 ' oA S ..,,_: b, 2 bet. 33 ; .
ONE.B_OOK GAL—"I love to read,” says Dagmar in between
rehearsing for her new TV show “Dagmar’s Canteen,” “but those |
oets scere me. If I only had one book I'd read it. But so many! |
Sweetie, they positively frighten me.” |
"Operation Strangle” Chokes Off
Build-Up Of Communists In Korea
By ROBERT S. JOHNSON
Written For NEA Service 1
FARMINGDALE, N. Y.—One of
the most unglamorous jobs ever to
fall to a modern soldier is being
carried out in Korea by the most
glamorous of today’s warriors—
the fighter pilots.
Few people back home know
anything about what most of our
fighter pilofs have been doing,
since the truce talks began, to car
ry out what is known as “Opera
tion Strangle.® But as the parleys
go into their temth month, the one
time Sir Galahads of the air are
being affectionately tagged as “fly~
ing doughfeet.”
Therein lies the story behind
the story of the air war in Korea—
the story behind the daily head
lines ,of aerial dogfights. For
the success of “Operation Stran
gle” i&8 measured not in terms of
MIGs shot down but in terms of
the damage to the enemy’s rail
and highway systems.
To a one-time fighter pilot who
had made the long trip from the
production line at Republic’'s fac~
tory in New York to the firing line
south eof the Yalu, this was my
A Gift of Guauty for You!
, i
{ Luxvuriously appointed . ..rich, simulated alligator /g% :
¥ D
.(*« \‘;4/5‘
» Week-Ender Gase ™\
4 §
fitted with a complete assortment of 11 famous r
Y Patricia Stevens Beauty Aids (%
& PLUS — a priceless . %?‘;\» N \ }
mokeup guide \‘ \\‘\ ;:}"i:":'»‘:"’.-u . 9 7@"‘
*The Way to Loveliness” \S bO R "fi'/
i o \\? INCEe. SRR
- : N \ LR Ve
VALUE iéz fi’“@%}
OUR GIFT _ g‘;{%" 'wm ot
T 0 YOU AR g B
when you buy e R
‘s‘ o " e S
%» a new @ ;" * AN e ;
u “&kf‘w . S T ; iy
ONg i ,
3 ‘:,? i \\«;._' — FEe L] 3
i B ] —— —S— R
e NEW 5 Year Protection Plan , ! E
covers Parts and Labor Bt : :
® Mechanism Sealed for Life % g
e Famous Hydro-Swirl Action w 8 ; o
®45 Years of Thor Leadership O PRI A (
Offer Limited! Come in Today! B—
& APPLIANCE CO.
\ 833 E. Broad : Phone 1751
first introduction to the coming
of-age of tactical airpower. We
had only scratched the surface of
its possibilities in Europe. But we
noted that it allowed Gen. Pat
ton’s-breaking speed to the Sieg
fried Line.
- - *
As 1 watched the heavily laden
Thunderjets take off from their
dusty airstrips, I realized that this
was the up-to-the-minute aerial
version of what J. E. B. Stuart
and Phil Sheridan did on horse
back during the Civil War and
what the German panzer divisions
did in Poland—strangling the en
emy’s supply lines and isolating
the battlefield.
The only difference is that our
ground forces in Korea are in
volved in a holding action and
are not moving northward along
the dried-up veins o. the Red sup
ply network.
Back in Tokyo, Far East Air
Force headquarters knows “Op
eration Strangle” as the strategy
of ‘“aerial interdiction.”
~ General Hoyt S. Vandenberg,
chief of the U. S. Air Staff, calls
WEDNEFSFDAY, APRIL 30, 1852.
it “the main UN military objeec
tive” in Korea today. More planes
and pilots are assigned to it than
to any other mission in the thea
tre. It is mounted with the utmost
in coordination.
Actually, Operation Strangle is
divided into two phases, There are
the “upstairs” boys flying F-86
' Sabrejet interceptors and there
' are the “downstairs” boys flying
the fighter-bombers. The sole mis~
sion of the interceptors is to fly
top-cover for the heavily laden
fighter-bombers while these carry
out the primary job.
Although the fighter-bomber
pilots wryly refer to their mis
sions as “milk runs” because they
cover the same route and plaster
the same targets every day, they
are hardly peaceable chores. The
Thunderjet pilots often have to
fly at tree-top level through the
heaviest flak since Hitler to reach
their targets—rail lines, roads,
bridges, tunnels, mountain passes,
I saw F-84s that had come back
to base with holes in them several
feet in diameter—tangible evi
dence of what the planes and
pilots had gone through, and of
the ability of aircraft to take fit.
About Operation Strangle’s suc
cess, high allied officers are en
thusiastic. Lieut-Gen, O. P, Wey=
land, Commanding General of the
Far East Air Force, said that “the
spectacular build-up of MIG ac
tivity can be taken as a direct
reflection of the degree to which
the enemy is being hurt by Op
eration Strangle.”
L » *
In the 16 months that the Thun
derjets have been in action over
Korea, they have flown 35,000
sorties, made 5890 rail cuts, de
stroyed or cdamaged 2250 rail cars
ard 175 rail bridges and tunnels.
A sidelight on Operation Stran
gle’s effectiveness was told me by
an officer up front. *“You know
why the Reds have been willing
to negotiate at all? It’s because
Operation Strangle has been run
ning them out of decent cigarets.
It was bad enough when they
were short of food and ammuni
tion. But when they had to smoke
Korean hay, well—that was the
last straw!”
Back in the States, several peo
ple have asked me recently, “If
Operation Strangle is such & big
military success, why don’t we
read about it more often?”
The answer is as old as war it
self. The stories that attract peo
ple the most are the sagas of in
dividual combat. And there’s al
ways something thrilling about
a gallant jet pilot getting his fifth
MIG, and becoming an ace. ‘
By contrast, when a fighter
bomber pilot finishes his hun
dredth mission, and is eligible for
a rest, the only tangible evidence
he has of his work is the alu
minum patch that covers the spot
where his plane was hit by flak.
Nobody adds up the number of |
rail cuts, locomotives, and bridges
he has put out of commission and
few are aware that a mere hand
ful of fighter-bombers are holding
and strangling the giant Chinese
Red army.
Science has not yet found any
method which will indicate intel
ligence through a study of the
form and size of the brain.
SHOP and SAVE
AT YOUR FRIENDLY Y
COLONIAL STORES
DURING T
“ATHENS SAVINGS DAYS” RIHIfx
MAXWELL HOUSE OR BAILEY’S SUPREME
ILb.
Bag 83‘
BALLARD’S
10 Lbs.
Cotton 99
4 Bag <
e RED GATE
No. 303
| Can lOc
RED GATE
GOLDEN :
No. 303
2 Cans 2sc
4 ALPACO ORANGE
" JUICE
46 Oz.
2 Cans 29‘
ALSO A WIDE VARIETY OF
OUT STANDING VALUES
In Our Complete
PRODUCE , A.MAT DEPART ENT :
1 v SNNTTEVY SXSO e |
READ THE BANNER-HERALD WANT ADS
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
DONALD DUCK GRAPEFRUIT
46 Oz. 29
2 Cans c
TRIANGLE
FLOU
10Lb.
579
Bag c
" JEWEL
3 Lb.
Can 69C
RED GATE
GREEN AND WHITE . »
No. 303 2 5
2 Cans ‘
BLACKEYE
w9B
Cello c