RELEASE OF PHOTOS
Two U.S. Army Men Disciplined
(Received September 4, 9.30 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, September 3.
The Secretary for War, Mr. Stimson, has ordered Colonel Dache Reeves, commander of Mitchell Field, and Major E. Farnol, Public Relations Officer, to be relieved of their commands as a result of the release for publication of three photographs purporting to show ground markers placed to guide enemy bombers to military objectives.
A remarkable set of photographs taken from U.S. Army observation planes showed giant arrows and other symbols on the landscape pointing directly. to aircraft plants, ammunition factories . and aerodromes. Secret guide posts visible only from the air, had been woven skilfully into the natural topography of the countryside. In one area a huge section of farmland had been ploughed up forming a perfect arrow, which pointed to a nearby plane factory. Sacks of grain in another field formed a figure nine with the tail pointing to a war plant. An Army Department statement said all the marks had been destroyed and proper action taken against the wouldbe saboteurs.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 8
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176RELEASE OF PHOTOS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 8
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