NAVAL BATTLES
LESSONS OF JAPANESE DEFEATS IMPORTANCE OF THE AIR FACTOR. PROMISING HEADWAY MADE BY AMERICANS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, June 14. Under the sub-title “Japanese Defeats at Sea,” “The Times,” in a leader, says the Coral Sea and Midway Island actions may mark the opening of a new epoch in naval battles, in which surface vessels will be unable to intervene offensively until one fleet has succeeded in destroying or disabling its opponents’ aircraft-carriers by air or submarine attack, and until the threat presented by land-based aircraft is neutralised. The result of the sea battles, it is added, justifies the utmost confidence in the ability of the United States Navy to wrest command of increasing regions of the Pacific from the enemy and to force him to fight a defensive battle, with waning resources. The American Fleet has not gone unscathed, but the United States possesses such superior building resources she can afford the relatively light losses suffered.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1942, Page 4
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164NAVAL BATTLES Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1942, Page 4
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