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1944
1944 - 0535.PDF
MARCH I6TH 1944 FLIGHT ^ TALK ABOUT TORQUE : These Martlets look as if they are sitting back ready to spring off the flight deck of H.M.S. Illustrious. WAKI Repeated Raids on Berlin : Forcing the Qermans to Fight Qeneral Spaatz Leading Out Trumps TEE German fighter pilots must be getting desperately short of sleep. By day as well >as by night now the R.A.F. and the Ameri cans pound the great industrial centres of the Reich, and each mighty raid has to be opposed by all the fighter strength which the Luftwaffe can put into the air. The German pilots fight hard too, but it is reported that train ing machines have been noticed among the numbers which have attacked the Americans. If this is correct, it shows Tffiat despite the increase of first-line strength by 1,000 machines during the last year the fighters are being stretched beyond their limits. Their losses, too, have been heavy. Over tired men often fight bravely, but they seldom are in that fine fettle which gives the best result for each sacrifice. Moreover, heavy casualties without a corresponding result must have a depressing effect. It has re cently been announced that the Rich- thofen Squadron has had its sixth com manding officer killed in action; that squadron can scarcely go into action now with an absolute assurance that it will sweep all before it. MADE U.S. BY U.S.: The remains of*«Japanese aircraft and buildings on Roi island airfield in the Marshalls, after the pre-invasion bombardment. One very obvious result of the strain now laid upon the fighter branch of the Luftwaffe is the slightness of the oppo sition encountered by the day sweeps carried out practically every day by the 2nd Tactical Air Force and the 9th Air Force of the American Army. Their Marauders anS other medium and light bombers, fighter-bombers, and fighters range daily over occupied France and the Low Countries, and very rarely are they opposed. No rest is given to the V'-fnlfitary objectives '' in the Pas de^6alais,jand many of the airfields fram fcvhifch the German, bombers used tf£>ra,rt for their \tvvk
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