The Ypsilanti Daily Press

SEA-AIR POWER MAKES WORLD'S STRONGEST NAVY

Navy Day

Acknowledging the part of its NAVY in final victory, a grateful nation celebrates Navy Day, Oct. 27. The war won, the importance of its air and sea power recognized, the "world's greatest Navy" readies itself for a vigilant peace; guns, ships, planes and men on the alert. The final story of the Navy's careful integration of its sea-air power and landing forces will go down in history as an epic of military achievement. These official Navy photographs show several facets of the hard-fought struggle. Official U.S.

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Ypsilanti residents will join with local patriotic organizations and the nation Saturday in celebrating the 170th anniversary of the founding of the United States Navy, by act of Congress, 1775. Mayor Bower has called upon residents of the city to mark the day with suitable celebrations, and to pay respect to the living and the dead of the organization and its coordinated forces; Merchant Marine, Coast Guard, Air Corps, and Marine Corps, and to display the national colors to express the gratitude of this community for the great services rendered the nation.

Since its beginning the Navy has engaged in nearly a dozen declared wars and punitive expeditions, and has fought innumerable engagements.

Governor Kelly, with governors of other states and the President has issued a proclamation setting the day of observation.

At celebrations of local groups, veterans of the recently ended war are to be guests of honor with their families.

The Edsel B. Ford Post will honor the Navy with a banquet at the "Log Cabin" on East Michigan Ave. Dinner will be served at 6 p. m. Guest speaker for the occasion will be Lt. Com. H. L. Miller, USN.

Lt. Com. Miller is a veteran of several years of Pacific combat, at Pearl Harbor, in the battle of the Coral Sea, and the occupation of the Attu Islands.

Navy films will be shown and an evening of entertainment will follow.

American Legion Huron Post will have a luncheon, dancing party, Saturday evening, at the Ypsilanti Lodge Auditorium. George Edeler, USN, a veteran of four years service will be guest speaker. Motion pictures will complete the program.

Ypsilanti Legion Post 282 will observe Navy Day at the Legion Home, Saturday evening, with a program of motion pictures and an open house social evening, arranged by veterans of World War II, Louin Hall and George Berberick.

Both city high schools, Roosevelt and Ypsilanti High observed Navy Day Thursday, with special all school assemblies. Navy films entitled "The Fleet that Came to Stay" were shown to both groups by Commander Joseph "Doc" McCulloch, Ypsilanti American Legion.

At Roosevelt, Lt. Russell Cooper, USN, former faculty member home on leave, addressed the assembly. Lt. Cooper, when member of the faculty, taught French and English. He has been in the Navy for over two years, serving aboard a supply transport ship between the U. S. and Europe, as communications officer.

The Ypsilanti High School band furnished appropriate music for the Navy films to be shown to that group. An address by Commander McCulloch followed.

In the local grade schools, observance of the Navy holiday was arranged by individual teachers in their class rooms, with no school assemblies being scheduled.

The Huron Navy Mother's Club held their observance Wednesday night following a brief business meeting. The highlight of their program was the talk given by Lt. George Morris, Detroit, who commanded a patrol in several Pacific landings during the war.

President Truman
Washington, Oct. 26-AP-President Truman will leave late tonight by train for New York to take part in a Navy Day celebration. The President will leave his special car in New York's Pennsylvania station at 10:30 a. m. He will make two speeches--one at the commissioning of the carrier Roosevelt at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the other a twenty-minute formal Navy Day address in Central Park. Later he will review the fleet in the Hudson River.

Fleet Notes Day
New York, Oct. 26-AP-Great grey ships of the Atlantic and Pacific fleets slipped into their Hudson River positions today in an awesome seven-mile display of naval might which President Truman and a thankful nation will acclaim tomorrow--Navy Day.

Last night, blinding shafts from the searchlights of the famed men-of-war opened the victory celebration of the greatest Navy Day in American history.

Ceremonies will be held and veteran warships saluted in ports throughout the nation on Navy Day but the most spectacular tribute will take place in New York when President Truman reviews an armada of 50 vessels.

As 1,200 Navy planes roar overhead (the greatest number ever assembled for such an occasion)--President Truman aboard the destroyer Renshaw will proceed along the line of vessels anchored in midstream.

The ships range from the largest warship afloat--the super-carrier of Pacific warfare, of Kamikaze planes and bomb hits. Among them is the famed battleship Missouri, scene of the Japanese surrender ceremony.

Vice Admiral Emory S. Land, war shipping administrator, ordered the 4,300 vessels of the American Merchant Marine, including about 800 now in New York Harbor, to dress ship for the occasion.

Big Guns of U.S.S. Missouri Hurled Steel and Flame
(Official U.S. Navy photo)

Jap Village Burned After Third Fleet Sweep
(Official U.S. Navy photo)

Well-Armed Battleships Like U.S.S. Tennessee Blasted the Foe
(Official U.S. Navy photo)

They Made Plans for the Japs
(Official U. S. Navy photo)

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas; Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., commanding U. S. Third Fleet.

Avenger Torpedo Bombers Symbolize Naval Aviation's Might
(Official Coast Guard photo)

Navy, Coast Guard Amphibious Craft Brought Marines to Iwo Jima

President Got Model of Surrender Ship, U.S.S. Missouri

L. to R.: Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King