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1944
1944 - 2352.PDF
5i8 WAR IN THE AIR bombing Belgrade much as they had before bombed Rotterdam. The car nage must have been terrible, and the whole civilised world was horrified. Now that outrage belongs to '' old unhappy far-off things," and Belgrade is once more in the hands of her own people and of friends. The ruins remain, as in other lands, to mark where the Hun has passed. Attack from the South ^TRAVELLERS (at least those who -*- have not seen Edinburgh) are often divided in opinion as to whether Paris or Vienna is the most delectable capital in Europe. Paris is now free, and fortu nately has hardly suffered at all from the bombers of either side. Vienna has still to be liberated. Reports have not suggested that the city itself has been bombed to any extent; but fac tories in the area round about have called for the attention of Allied bombers. They were doubtless built there so as to be out of the easy reach of bombers based in England. The German.planners did not reckon with attacks from Italy. The Fortresses of Gen. Spaatz' 15th Air Force have lately been very busy in that area, and have flown there day after day. At the same time Liberators have been hammering the approaches to the Brenner Pass. Kesselring must have it in his mind that sooner or later he will have to get out of Italy. Perhaps he may try to take his remaining troops with him (unless the Fiihrer orders them to die on the spot), and if £0 the way of escape is not obvious. The problem cannot make for Kessel- ring's peace of mind. FOR HOW MUCH LONGER? A reconnaissance photograph of the air-raid damage to Brunswick. For every week the war continues some German city is devastated by Allied aircraft. Far away in the Philippines, Ad miral Halsey has again made good use of the aircraft from his carriers. He sent them on a surprise raid on Manila, the capital city of the islands, where they attacked airfields and shipping in the harbour. Japanese fighters offered resistance, but in vain. It was an nounced at Pearl Harbour that no fewer than 440 enemy aircraft were destroyed, either in the air or on the ground, and that 30 ships were either sunk or damaged. The Japanese can probably replace the lost aircraft, though it will take time to build 440; but shipping is Japan's weak point, and this was a very heavy blow at her TARNISHING THE LILY : A low-flying aircraft of the 5th U.S.A.A.F. strafes a Japanese Lily medium bomber on the airfield of Selaroe Island. power of maintaining communications with her armies in the occupied terri tories. Mr. Churchill on Bombing 1IT7HEN the Prime Minister spoke on " the progress of the war at the Lord Mayor's luncheon he was hardly so happy as he usually is in the words with which he alluded to the bomb ing of Germany. Starting with the remark that '' there now rains down on the guilty German land a hail of fire and explosive of ever-increasing fury," he went on to allude to our own past ordeals, and then assured his hearers that '' we have not suffered one-tenth, and we shall not suffer one- tenth, of what is being meted out to those who first started and developed this cruel and merciless form of attack." Those words sound as if the tions of Bomber CommandJffgainst German production were ajKrisal for me bombing of British mixes by the Luftwaffe. The Air^Blinistry has \ repeatedly asserted tpit our bomber -""^easiye was] not u»ertaken by way rfcprWris. Som^vho heard or read : Xjipie MinisJPr's words might be used if thej^toqk it that he was attacks by Bomber !cruet -*and merciless." e Y-uftwaffe'* raids on could be sd ^described, for theMwere obviously attempts to break British morale bv killing civilians and destroying their nb«ses and other propertjf. The objects of Bomber ConirrWfnd were quite different. They : 1 tracks,, on^'Gerriian war produc tion. Ik sucV attacks it was regret table but inevitable that German civilians Riust suffer, especially in cases where sub-contracting plants were scattered throughout the built-up areas of German cities. But most cer- describi Comma
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