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1944
1944 - 0952.PDF
494 WAR IN THE AIR Germans, but they could hardly suspect that the R.A.F. was aware of that fact. Steps had to be taken to see that if anything went wrong the Germans should be left in ignorance of the British knowledge about this, so that a second attack might be made before the enemy ,saw the necessity of moving the documents elsewhere. The tactics were so skilful that every object was achieved. True, one bomb went astray and might have hit a house with Dutchmen in it. But lortune favoured good organisation (as the saying goes) and that bomb hit a German barracks, which it was hoped was full of German soldiers at the time. The important house was com pletely destroyed, and with it went the documents inside. Incendiaries accom panied the H.E. bombs, and they would make sure that the destruction of the papers was complete. It was a really good piece of planned bombing Help for Tito /^\NE of the marvels of the present ^ war is the way in which the Yugoslav partisans have held out against the Germans and won so many successes with such an exiguous supply of weapons. They got some modern equipment from the Italian troops when Italy ceased to fight on the side: of Germany, but it cannot • bvi'fi nearly enough. Above all. e Yugoslavs had no air arm. The whack of this was minimised to somt#extent because most of the fight ing^fia^>een pi the mountains, where rait are simewhat less vital than r plains ; £ut none the less one re- LANDING-ON : A vivid impression from a Swordfish as it straightens up for the final approach to H.M.S. Biter. For quite a while the ship is blotted out by the. nose of the aircraft. Landing-on has been likened to landing an aircraft on an invisible matchbox which is running away from you at 30 knots. members that the small number of squadrons which the R.A.F. was able to send to help the Greeks during the campaign in Albania made a lot of difference to our gallant Allies. Since the Anglo-American forces obtained control of the Foggia air fields in Italy, their aircraft have devoted a good deal of attention to holding out a helping hand to Tito and his heroes. Their bombing, however, must have been rather of a strategic nature. The intimate co-operation between ground troops and a tactical ACHTUNG SCHPITFEUER !: A Spitfire IX goes on a sortie over Germany. It's a far cry to the days of the Battle of Britain when this alarm was heard so often over the Luftwaffe radio. It is now being heard over Germany. air force, which is so very desirable, was hardly possible when the aircraft were based in another country and were flown by foreigners who could not speak the language of the patriots. This is being remedied by raising a native Yugoslav Air Force, and pilots and ground crews are now being trained by R.A.F. instructors in Africa. There must have been some difficulty in finding instructors who could speak the language of the?* pupils, but evidently the difficulty has been surmounted somehow or other. Another U.S. Navy aircraft carrier of 27,000 tons, named Bon Homme Richard, has been launched in New York. She is to have a speed of over 30 knots and will carry over 80 air craft. In New Guinea, Allied naval and air operations are steadily reducing the beleaguered Japanese. The Wewak area has been subjected to almost .con stant air attacks, and enemy fuel dumps and vehicles are constantly hit. The naval forces, in particular, have been sinking numbers of Japanese barges off the coast, and aircraft have added their quota to the sum total of this good work. Bucharest's Night Raid TN previous articles allusion has been -*- made to the acute disruption of ordered life in Bucharest since the Americans began to bomb its railway centre by dayligh^. Rumanian admin istration broke down, and the Germans had to take over. Last week the dis tracted city had the novel (and doubt less very unpleasant) experience of a visit by night by R.A.F. Halifaxes; Liberators and Wellingtons. Again the railway yards were the target. Of la?*- the R.A.F. has greatly improved the
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