The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1943 Page: 5 of 8
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THE HUMBLE ECHO, HUMBLE, TEXAS
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Battle Stress
Great in War
Doctors Told That Mental
Crack-Ups Need High
Morale as Remedy.
Fliers Use All
Kinds of Bombs
For Every Purpose Special
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By Air Forces.
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PHILADELPHIA. — The mental
breakdowns of American soldiers,
largest and costliest item of our
present losses, are not the same as
in the World war, and require a
high home morale as one antidote.
This report was made to the Asso-
ciation of Military Surgeons of the
United States here by Dr. Edward
A. Strecker, consultant in psychia-
try to the secretary of war, the navy
and the army air forces.
In the World war the common
mental crack-ups were due to the
hysterias. These brought on blind-
ness in perfectly good eyes, paral-
ysis in perfectly good legs. They
were due to shock and fear in battle.
They were not deliberate, Dr. Streck-
er explained, but due to the person-
ality trying camouflage to protect
itself. A man with paralyzed legs,
for example, couldn’t march or fight.
In the present war the men are
under great strain for long periods,
for they are fighting with compli-
cated machinery that both protects
them and takes more out of them
to operate. The long-continued wor-
ry breaks their minds, and in the
end more men may give way than
in the relatively brief battle situa-
tions.
Morale Best Remedy.
In fact, said Dr. Strecker, if rug-
’ ged men who would not have been
expected to crack in previous wars,
break in this one now and then, the
reason seems to be that human en-
durance is reaching its limit, and
there is a limit for even a normal
person.
“Increasingly deeper layers of the
protective veneer are being stripped
from the human psyche,” he ex-
plained, “and greater depths of hor-
ror are being uncovered.”
To meet the strain of long-contin-
ued anxiety, Dr. Strecker said, high
morale, both at home and in the
troops, is altogether the best pre-
ventive and remedy.
The unusual physical strain on
men who bomb Berlin was described
by Maj. Gen. David N. W. Grant,
air surgeon.
General Grant is in charge of the
health of all the army air forces.
His 10,000 medical officers have the
job of keeping the fliers from break-
ing down under the strain as well as
the health of all aviation ground
forces.
Watching a Flying Fortress pass
overhead, General Grant said,
makes the business of flying bombs
to Berlin appear quite simple.
‘And Fear of Death.'
“One look into the pilot’s cabin of
a B-17 will convince you that its
flight is actually an engineering op-
eration demanding manual and men-
tal skills which put the driving of
an automobile in the kiddy-car class.
“The compartment is lined—front,
sides, ceiling and part of the floor—
with controls, switches, levers, dials
and gauges. I once counted around
130.
“Then get into a flying suit,
gloves, and shoes all heated by elec-
tricity, put on a helmet with ear-
phones, cover your eyes with gog-
gles and the rest of your face with
an oxygen mask containing a micro-
phone, strap on your parachute, and
it might be well to add about 16
pounds of body armor.
“That will give you an idea of the
normal conditions under which these
men work out the higher mathe-
matical relationships of engine revo-
lutions, manifold and fuel pressure,
aerodynamics, barometric pressure,
altitude, wind drift, air speed,
ground speed, position and direction.
“And as the final touch to this
bizarre picture of intense concen-
tration. add the fear of death.”
the HUMBLE ECHO
Published Weekly
Telephone 120
Published in Humble by the E.
Beaumont Printing Company, cor-
ner Ave. D and 4th Street.
ii. Beaumont — —---Editor
P. O. Davant — - Associate Editor
E. L. Beaumont---Bus. Mgr.
NEW YORK.—It takes all kinds
of bombs—as well as planes—to
make an air force.
The U. S. army air forces have
a bomb for every purpose, from a
100-pounder, which can wreck a lo-
comotive, to one weighing 42 times
as much, capable of laying waste a
city block.
The AAF uses three kinds of
bombs in combat—demolition, frag-
mentation and chemical. Before each
bombing mission it is necessary to
decide not only the weight of bombs
carried but the sizes of the individu-
al bombs and the types of fuses and
bomb cases which will give the max-
imum effect against the target, ac-
cording to the army air forces issue
of “Flying.”
Demolition 'bombs alone have five
types:
GP—General purpose, 50-55 per
cent explosive.
SAP—Semi-armor piercing, 32 per
cent Explosive.
AP—Armor-piercing, 5-12 per cent
explosive.
LC—Light case, 77 per cent ex-
plosive.
DB—Depth bomb, 70-75 per cent
explosive. .
Biggest cf All.
The GP bomb is so strong it can
be dropped without rupturing from
an altitude of 8,000 feet against a
slab of concrete four feet thick. With
a delayed-action fuse such a bomb
would crash through to the basement
of most buildings, bury itself several
feet in the ground near a bridge
and penetrate the decks of all but
cruisers and battleships. The larg-
est GP—2,000 pounds—can sink or
seriously damage a battleship with
a direct hit or from as far away
as 35 feet when exploded in the wa-
ter. The SAP 1,000 pounder will
penetrate, the .side or deck of all
naval craft except battle cruisers'and
battleships. SAP bombs range in
weight from 699 to 1,600 pounds.
The biggest AAF bomb of all is
the LC blockbuster—4,200 pounds of
bomb containing 3,362 pounds of ex-
plosive, equipped with an instanta-
neous fuse so that its terrific blast
will occur before the bomb case rup-
tures. The LC was designed for a
target which provides its own
“tamping”—e.g., a congested city
block.
“Tamping” is the confinement of
the explosive within the target, with
no holes through which its energy
may escape. To accomplish this,
GP, SAP and AP bombs are made
to explode only after penetration of
a building, the ground, a ship, or
the water beside the ship. The LC
explodes on impact. Destruction
caused by a well-tamped explosive
may be 4.5 times as the same amount
untamped.
Destructive Type.
For knocking out U-boats two
types of depth bombs are used—the
325-pound Mark 17 and the 650-
pound Mark 29, containing about 75
per cent explosive filler and a navy
hydrostatic fuse.
Fragmentation bombs are used
against ground forces and light ma-
terial—trucks, airplanes and en-
campments. They break into 1,000
to 1,500 pieces weighing about three-
tenths of an ounce each, with veloci-
ties up to 4,000 feet per second. Such
fragments, bursting at 200 feet, will
penetrate a wing or gas tank, cut
tires and control wires, perforate
radiators and intercoolers. Ground
crews need 25 to 30 hours to repair
planes damaged by fragments dis-
charged from a distance of 90 feet
or less from the plane.
A fin-type fragmentation bomb,
equipped with a mechanical time
fuse, can be dropped on a lower-
flying formation of airplanes and
made to explode in their midst.
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Men’s Fellowship
Club Meeting
There is'a special - men's fel-
lowship meeting Tuesday night
December 21st in the recreation
hall of the Methodist church.
All of the men of Humble and
the surrounditg community are
invited to attend this meeting.
This is not a Methodist meet-
ing but a meeting of the men of
the town. Come and bring a
friend. Supper at 7:00 p.m.
meeting at 8:00.
Jim Jeter, pres.
A. L. Lee, sec.
The home of Mrs. A. V. Rous-
eau was the setting for a setting
for a Christmas party for the
adult classes of the Methodist
church school. The Christmas
tree was used to camoffage a
pounding for the pastor. Games
were played and delicious re-
freshments were served,
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ADDITIONAL LOCALS
Mrs. N. C, LInderwood(Rubi-
du k Baize) is seriously ill with
pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. Wheelis Cooper
ind daughter Linda Ruth and
virs. George L. Cunningham of
hisadena spent Sunday in
iumble.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Wilmoth
and daughter, Wanda Marie re-
:urned to Conroe Sunday after
spending the week in Humble
,vith Mrs. Wilmoth’s parents.
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Mrs. Idalia Sayers attended
:hurch in Houston last Sunday
with her daughter Annie Laurie.
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Mr. and Mrs. Herman Jenk-
ins entertained Cpl. Emery Lea
Beaumont with a dinner Friday
niiht.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Stewart
entertained with a dinner in
lonor of Lieut. Jack Fields and
parents.
Mrs. D. L. Lunn honored Cpl
Emery Lea Beaumont with a
supper Wednesday evening.
I'hose present were: Mr. and
Mrs. E. Beaumont, Mr. an
vlrs. Lennon Timme, Mrs. Bill
Hart and Mrs. John Baldridge.
TRY Gilberts Home Cooking
Gilbert's Family service Cafe
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Beaumont, E. The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1943, newspaper, December 17, 1943; Humble, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth647908/m1/5/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Humble Museum.