Henry Gorrell - Bombing of Navarino Bay

Soldiers of the press! Shoulder to shoulder with the men on the fighting front of the world go the correspondence of the United Press. You will find them peering down from the bellies of bombers over New Guinea or Kiel, scanning swirling actions in Egypt from the scant cover of foxholes, or from baking bruising tanks.

You will find them on the bridges and sky controls of cruises and carriers off midway and wake in Malta, or sharing a lookout to watch a Bordecon boy ship, heading blindly through the arctic dark for Mormansk.

With the troops they accompany, these correspondence face every peril of war, gunfire, capture and pestilence, hardship, tension and tedium. There is a vital wartime task to observe and report to you developments on the battlefronts.

Report them clearly, completely, quickly. Among the hundreds of United Press correspondents fulfilling this important mission is Henry T. Garell. Our story of his recent adventures is the story behind a communique issued by United States heavy bomb-bardon-air force base, somewhere in the Middle East.

In an attack on enemy shipping in Navarino Bay, flames of the U.S. Army Air Force damaged two large supply-laden cargo vessels, causing violent explosions attempted by fires. That was the terse account of that action contained in the official announcement, but to United Press correspondent Henry Garell, there was much more to the story than that, for Garell

road in one of those bombers over Navarino Bay. Yes, I was in one of those big form-motor consolidated V-24s, and saw them give the Germans a taste of America's fighting-power. And I can tell you that every American has a right to be proud of the men and machines of war we're turning against our enemies.