WIDENING SPHERES

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 246, 19 October 1942, Page 3

WIDENING SPHERES

ACTIVITIES OF U.S. ARMY. P.A. Cable. WASHINGTON, Oct 16. The War Secretary, Mr Stimson, referred to the mounting activities of American airmen in co-operation with the British in Europe, North Africa and the Mediterranean and Army patrol operations in China and India. Tanks and motor-vehicles were assembled in Eritrea, and were forwarded from there to British armies in North Africa. A series of landing fields had been formed through the heart of Africa for planes en route to India, Egypt, China and Russia, Mr Stimson also disclosed that American supply troops in the Persian Gulf .were hastening the flow of equipment to the Russians in the Caucasus. Within a few days after the occupation, the Army built an airfield on the Andreanoff Islands, which 12 days later was used by medium and heavy bombers and fighters and had thus changed the entire picture in the Aleutians, providing an immense base from which the Japanese in Attu, Aggatu and Kiska could be successfully attacked, making the Japanese position there extremely hazardous. Mr Stimson disclosed that the first negro flying squadron was nearly ready for overseas combat duty. He also said that American forces were now stationed in New Zealand.