Paramount Duty (continued)                                     SECRET
 
 
         To insure the defeat of such a bombing attack, the enemy
 carriers must be discovered during daylight of the day preceding
 the attempted assault. This means, roughly, in the area between the
 800 mile and the ll00mile circles. See diagram.
 
      The patrolling of this vast expanse of ocean can only
 be done effectivelyby long range planes
 
                    Consequently  the maintenance of this patrol on the Panama
 Sea Frontier is the most vittel part of the war effort of the Army and 
Navy forces in the Canal Zone.
 
Army.    --     Under the aggressive leadership of Lieutenant General
F. M. Andrews, USA, Commanding General, Caribbean Defense Command,
 the Army is doing a fine job. The personnel from top to bottom
 is grimly earnest and alive to the realities of the war situation
 and the importance of the tasks assigned to them.
 
Navy.     --    The Navy's war efforts, in some respects, have been 
sluggish because of lack of virile leadership. Lack of
 effective cooperation with the Army was evident.
 
        Rear Admiral F. H. Sadler, USN, Commandant, Fifteenth
 Navel District, has been ordered relieved of his commd. His
 successor, Rear Admiral Clifford Van Hook, USN, is an able,
 younger officer who has proven his ability to cooperate with the
 Army.
 
 
 Aviation.   --   The organization of Naval aviation activities in the
 Fifteenth Naval District is neither logical nor workable.
 Recommendations made by me to the present Commandant were
 summarily rejected by Admiral Sadler on the grounds - among
 others - that to accept them would aid the Army in its alleged
 plot to gain and retain control of Navel aviation. Admiral Van
 Hook will correct this situation immediately upon taking command.
 
         It is a pleasure to report that the high efficiency and 
 splendid cooperation of Patrol Wing Three and its dynamic
 commander, Commander Arthur Gavin, USN, were highly praised
 by Generals Andrews, Johnson and Lyons.
 
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