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SEPTEMBER 2NO, 1943 FLIGHT ' t I- Qerman Fighters in Italy : Italian Cruiser Bcfmbed i Foggia Airfields : Aircraft in Russia THE Germans have shown uncer-tainty as to the amount theywould risk in the defence of southern Italy. For a while the Allied aircraft found no hostile machines in the skies, and bombed railway junc- tions at their will. Then, on certain days, fairly strong forces of enemy bombers were met, but they were un- able to hold off the British and Ameri- cans. Then again came days without an enemy fighter to be seen in the air. This undecided policy did no good in i saving the Italian communications, wbitt cost the enemy a# number of fighters which he obviously cannot now well afford. Perhaps this blowing hot and cold about the decision to use fighters on the jobs for which they were intended or to save them at the sacrifice of the ground targets, may reflect the dismay caused by the raid of the United States bombers on the Messerschmitt factory at Regensburg. Major General H. L. George, of the U.S. Army Air Forces, has made a statement to the effect that that raid destroyed 30 per cent, of the German production of day-fighters, that the damage to the factories would take at least six months to repair, and that, therefore, the Luftwaffe would be short of 2,000 "fighters which could have been made in that time. The General also expressed the opinion that the round-the-clock bombing now being let loose on Ger- many, by the R.A.F. at night and by the Americans by day, if continued with rising tempo, would cause the economic structure of Germany to fail by the end of this year. That, of course, does not mean that the General expects the Germans to sue for peace before December 31st next. It is, how- ever, very satisfactory to hear of such a blow at the production of German fighters, as they are the only weapon, so far as is known, of which the Ger- man armies have felt a definite short- age in recent conflicts. The R.A.F. , left to right: General Arnold ; Sir John Dill; General Marshall; Admiral THE QUEBEC MEETING. On the terrace of the Citadel. In the background the front row : Mr. Mackenzie King ; President Roosevelt ;l Mr. Churchill. In the ba«fci Marshal Sir Charles Portal ; General Sir Alan Brooke ; Admiral King * * Sir Dudley Pound ancf V
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