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1943 - 0361.PDF
FEBRUARY IITH, 1943 FLIGHT 141 WAR IN THE AIR ENEMY AIR LOSSES TO Over G Jan. 31 Feb. 1 " 3 4 5 „ 6 Totals : 0 0 01 0 1 0 2 West Over B. Continent 0 0 23 1 1 0 7 FEB. 6th. Middle East 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 4 6,606 : Middle East, over 5,210. have been for some time past indica- tions that there have been substantial withdrawals of its squadrons from Russia. The Germans and their satel- lites there have already lost immense quantities of booty to the advancing Russians, and it looks as if they will shortly lose much more. Perhaps they have decided to send away a good pro- portion of their squadrons while the going was still good. Much of the ground equipment would necessarily have to be left behind, but it may have been thought well worth while to get as many of the machines and crews away, even though by doing'so they left their ground troops without enough air support. One Russian report of booty captured recently on one sector mentioned 143 tanks, 516 guns, 32 military trains, many smaller weapons, but no aircraft at all. On other occasions the Russian reports have mentioned numbers of enemy air- BRITISH & U.S. AIR LOSSES TO FEB. 6th. OverG.B. A'crft.Jan. 31 0 Feb. 1 0 ,,2 0,,3 0 .,4 0 ,,5 0 6 0 0 Totals: West, Over Continent B'brs. F'trs.0 0 0 0 7 816 0 3 0 0 1 3 3 29 12 5,165; Middle East, MiddleEast A'erft.0 0 0 1 01 1 3 ibout 2,067. EEL'S EYE VIEW : A Latecoere 298 torpedo seaplane, which was being used byVichy in the Guif of Arzeu before the Allied occupation of North Africa. The torpedo is carried in a special bay under the fuselage. The Latecoere 298 is powered byan 880 h.p. 12-cyl. "V" type liquid-cooled Hispano-Suiza i2Ycrs engine with Ratier airscrew, and has a top speed of 186 rn,-P-h. at 6,500 feet. Its span is 50ft. ioin. craft captured and destroyed which seemed quite insignificant compared with the huge hauls of tanks and guns. East and West HTHE airfield in New Guinea at which -*- the field guns have been landed is at a place called Wau, to the south- west of Salamaua, and the Japanese have made serious attempts to inter-" fere with it. Last Saturday there were desperate air battles above it. The American transports had to turn back when a strong Japanese force was found to be bombing .the landing ground ; but the escort of eight Kitty- hawks attacked the enemy at 2,000 feet and Australian A.A. gunners on the ground joined in. At the same time Airacobras higher up engaged other Japanese machines at 12,000 feet. In each case the American fighters scored complete victories with- out losing a single machine themselves. The enemy losses were very heavy. It has been made known that there is a squadron of Mosquitoes at Malta now, which for some weeks past has been striking out in all directions, at Sicily, at Italy, and at Tunisia, by night as well as by day. Other types have also played their part, and now railway travel in southern Italy is by no means the safe and easy matter that it recently was. Goods trains have been riddled with fire from end to end, but when the British pilots see a passenger train they only attack the engine. Bomber Command has kept up its periodical raids on northern Italy, TRIPLE TAIL TRANSPORT : An unconventional view of the Lockheed Constellation (four 2,000 h.p. 18-cyl. Wright double-row Cyclones) in which the men walking towards the machine provide an indication of its size.
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