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1945 - 0159.PDF
JANUARY 25TH, 1945 FLIGHT OPEN-AIR HANGAR : Pushing a Typhoon outof a wrecked hangar in Belgium. Most of the damage was done by our bombs before theairfield was captured. in the The Russian Offensive : Silesia Threatened The Weather in Europe : Where is the Japanese Air Force?T HE liberation of Warsaw by the Russians under Marshal Zhukov is news that would stir the mostsluggish blood. It recalls that it was Hitler's attack on Poland whichbrought Britain into the war in 1939. The city suffered terribly from theshells and bombs of the Germans be- fore it fell, and none of us knows theextremity of suffering which it has since undergone. Early this year theGermans were able to repulse the Rus- sian attempts to relieve it; and theheroic but' hopeless rising of the citizens against their oppressors stinedthe admiration and pity of the world outside the borders of the Axis. Now,at length, Warsaw is free. Marshal Stalin has described War-saw as a most important strategic strongpoint in the enemy defences onthe river Vistula. Stalin was taking the purely military point of view, inwhich Warsaw was not a symbol, but just one point on a line. The Russian winter offensive, which recentlyopened, is on a gigantic scale, and has thoroughly frightened the Germanbroadcasters. One of them called it "an offensive effort the like of whichhas never been seen." The bullies are now shaking in their shoes. Theweather is evidently variable along the enormous front; for in places itseems that the aircraft are grounded ; but when Zhukov began his driveStalin mentioned that the 1st White Russian Army was supported by air-craft as well as by other arms. It is unusual for the air arm to get a specialmention in a Russian order of the day. It was gratifying to hear the Germans confess that the success of the Russian advance has been made pos-sible by the Anglo-American pressure on the West Front. That has certainlytied down a number of German divi sions, and in particular armour. Theyneed armour on the East Front and they are at a loss to know where to BURMA WAY : Air Comdre. the Earlof Bandon, who commands an R.A.F, Group operating against the Japanese,with his staff watching bombs falling.
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