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1943
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FEBRUARY 4TH, 1943 FLIGHT OVER THE STEAM JET : A Fairey Fulmar 8-gun fighter taking off from the flight deck of a carrier WAR in the AlR , The Casablanca Conference : Americans Bomb Qermany : Lorient Base Raided Again : Dieseh Works at Copenhagen THE sensational meeting ofPresident Roosevelt and Mr.Churchill at Casablanca is yet one more illustration of how air trans- port expedites the planning of war. To their meeting should be added the also extremely important meeting of General de Gaulle and General Giraud at the same place and at the same time. But for air transport these con- ferences could not have taken place in the way they did, for, though Mr. Churchill has twice crossed the Atlantic in a battleship to meet the President, it is not always convenient to send suth a vessel to a particular spot. Everyone feels certain that the onslaught of the United Nations on the already tottering Axis will proceed all the better and all the faster as a result of this historic meeting The resistance of France to the aggressor, and her stature among the United Nations, will both be increased by the meeting of the two patriotic and able French Generals. The spirits of the German people must have received a severe shock when it was admitted to them that their Sixth Army at Stalingrad had been surrounded and would be ex- terminated. To add to their depres- sion came the first raid on a German port by bombers of the American , Eighth Army Air Force last week. For some months that Air Force has been, so to speak, getting its .hand in by raiding places in the occupied countries, and it has made 29 raids ICEBOUND : The wading party bring-ing a Catalina to an Icelandic slipway. of that description. The occupying German forces have realised the sig- nificance of those raids, but. they cannot have come home to the soldiers and civilians in Germany. The latter have endured many devastating attacks by the R.A.F., but they have probably also heard and rejoiced at the constant complaints that Bomber Command has not enough machines to do all that it would like to do, and that it is being often diverted to other targets, which diversions have given a respite to German production. This laid on Wilhelmshaven by Fortresses and on other places in theReich by Liberators must have brought it home to the Germans inGermany that the future before them is indeed grim. American productionis now approaching its peak, and the numbers of bombers available is in-creasing at a rate which bodes ill for Germany as well as Japan In this connection, it may be pointedout that the combined planning ol Britain and the United States is havingan effect which may well have sur- prised our enemies. American senti-ment, quite naturally, regards Japan
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