Gilman High School - Gilmanac Yearbook (Northeast Harbor, ME)

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x 1 'r 5 - 'fn .A LEND-LEASE A POWERFUL WEAPON Lend-Lease is an American device by which the United Nations aid one another with supplies and services. ' From 1951 to l958,when the second world war was develop- ing, we stayed out of the world struggle, but finally from, our desire for security' we passed the cash-and-carry law to enable us to arm those, who in fighting for their security, might assure ours too. By spring 1940 France wr: out of the war and Zritair stcad alone against Germany and Italy. By the next year ,Britain left to spend. without our help she could had little money not continue the war successfully. Mhat should we do? We enter the warg we could not lend Britain did not want to money because the Johnson Act forbade that, and we dared not let Britain, China, and the rest perish. The solution to our problem was the Lend-Lease 'Act passed just nine months before Pearl Harbor. The defeat of nations fighting, and lend or lease to them the things they needed. Lend-Lease is, not only between the United States andfq other members of the United Nations but also between other members. Up to the end of 1942 Great Britain had sent more weapons, overseas to fighting fronts than we had. She sent Russia more than 2500 tanks and more than 3000 planes. We are familiar' with the fact of supplies going from this country to the United Nations, but we are less familiar with the help being given us by others. Take New Zealand as an example. All the mean vegetables eggs, fruits, butter, and cheese eaten by our troops in New Zealand are given without charge under Lend-Lease. Last fall our soldiers got so many eggs that New Zealanders were reduced to three eggs to a person each week for several months. Two large hospitals, and hotels have been turned over to American troops. Our troops are also transported free on their rail- roads 0 4 Australia began to help us when she sent shiploads of food to our troops on Bataan. Australians are the world's biggest meat eaters, but when we sent thousands of our sold- iers there, the civilianfs habits changed, and now they eat meat when they can get it. They can get very few canned goods only 10 cigarettes U driving is against the law. a day when they are available. Pleasure - 2 - the axis was essential to our security so we must aid they in V M 1.

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X f ' WHERE WILL WORLD WAR II BE WON? The Duke of Wellington said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. After this war is over some historian is going to say that it was won on the campuses of America's schools and colleges. He won't be wrong. While German and Italian youth were goose stepping for Hitler and Mussolini, American youth were playing desperately on the football fields and basket ball courts for the honor of their schools. Hitler's youth were compelled to march and drill and to train for war, but American youth voluntarily studied for peace and trained for sports. The German organ- izations built strong, blindly bodies and unquestioning,blind- ly obedient minds. America filled her youth with the spirit of team work, .the will to win, and the ability to win. She 'helped them build well balanced bodies, and good muscular coordination. dThe German athlete isaa machine capable of doing only what he has been taught. The American athlete is trained to handle himself under all conditions. His timing is carefully developed. Every muscle in his body is strengthened systematically. He is taught the basic principles of his game and he practices them until he does them auto- maticly but when he is in a game he makes his own decisions according to the circumstances. The German youth fights as he plays. He is a fighting machine capable of only certain tasks under limited conditions. He does not enjoy a battle just as he doesn't a game. He has no background of sports to give him the spirit of a contestant in a game for his games had been part of a regi- mented training program in which he had no chance to 'show any individuality at all. The American youth :fights for his country just as he played for his college. A battle is a test for himself 'and his country and he puts himself whole- heartedly into it. He risks his life in war as he risked his limbs in football games. He enters a battle as- he entered a game, with a good knowledge of his own and his enemies weaknesses and strengths, with the conviction .that hinis fighting for the right side, and the belief that he will W . All of Americas fighting forces are tremendously strenth- ened by her athletes but the air force benefits most. 'In a bomber team work, muscular coordination, perfect timing, and stamina are as important as a knowledge of one's job. These things are not got while in the army or navy but while on the gridirons, baseball diamonds, and basket ball courts. Clifford Manchester '45

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4-as-sslLMAN-seaasasislgae li!-SCHOOLMQS as il' '35 'X' '35 95 '26 ii- 4 r it it 65 it -32' it 991943-Be -LENDHLEASE A POWERFUL UEAPON fcontinuedl The Australians make ner hospitals for us, and they re- pair our equipment. In this manner Australia returns what she receives from us under Lend-Lease. The American forces in New Caledonia are getting aid from the Fighting French, South Africa supplies naval aidg India makes uniformsg Belgium aids us in the Congo. China ships us raw materials. Lend-Lease aidibrour forces in the British Isles starts before the troops leave our ports because they are carried by British ships and conveyed by the British Navy. The British government pays the transportation costs of moving American soldiers in the Hritish Isles. Our soldiers are supplied, without cost, with arms, several hundred Spitfire planes and many field guns. Britain has provided us with over a million square yards of portable airfield runways and are supplying several 'thousand more. We have received supplies such as 15,000 bombs 70,000 rounds of 6-in. shells over 200 thousand anti-tank mines, electric 9 batteries hand grenades, parachutes, and many new hospitals. Almost all the bread for our soldiers is made from British flour under Lend-Lease, and they have agreed to sup- ply us with potatoes, fruits, vegetables, jam, and salt. Soon after Pearl Harbor she sent barrage 'balloons to our Vest Coast for defense apainst Jap attacks. Great Brit- ain has furnished us with specifications for her system of aircraft detection developed during a long period of bitter air warfare. The object of Lend-Lease is the destruction of the ene- my. Last year ?ritain's Eighth Army was equipped with Brit- ish weapons Rxftheir drive across Libya, but the 1000 planes 500 tanks and anti-tank Suns that we sent to the British gave them air power, fire power and armor. The General Sherman tanks that were used so successfully were designed by British and American experts. In dollars spent Lend-Lease has cost the Uhited States from March 1941 to January 1945 more than eight and one quarter billion dollars. It is quite probable that we shall expend more dollars and deliver more goods to others than they will to us, since we have the world's largest and only bomb free industry among the United Nations, as well as a larve asriculture LJ na ' ..5..