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1944 - 0589.PDF
MARCH 23RD, 1944 Wrecksd Axis aircraft (Junkers 88s) used as windbreaks to prevent tents being blown down on an Italian airfield. WAR Russian Ideas on Bombing : 1,000 R.A.F. Heavies Over Qermany : The Air Arm Tackles Cassino IN accounts of the recent magnifi cent series of Russian victories some inklings have appeared of the part played by the air. Marshal Stalin in one of his Orders of the Day has mentioned air formations as having distinguished' themselves. Marshal Konev, who finally destroyed the Ger man 8th Army at Korsun, is reputed to be extremely skilful in co-ordinating the weapons at his disposal, and as being particularly skilful in the use of Stormoviks, which he calls his '' fly ing tanks." Berlin has announced a recent attack on Feodosia in the Crimea by 80 bombers and much Rus sian air activity round Odessa, while far away to the north the Russian air arm has been very active against towns in Estonia, and in particular the Capital, Tallinn, which is said to have been hard hit. *" 'Strategic bombing is not an aspect of warfare with which the Russians havg much concerned themselves. To them aircraft are just one arm of the Army, mainly to be used as long-range artillery to disrupt the back areas of the German communications, but also as field artillery over the battlefield. In this conception they have followed German ideas rather than those of Britain and the United States, and that, no doubt, is why Stalin' always speaks of the great bomber offensive in the West in terms of very moderate satisfaction. However, he must appreciate the effect of our bombing on the output HEIGHTS ERRANT : Beaufighters raking escort vessels with cannon fire during an attack on an enemy convoy off the Dutch coast. of such weapons as tanks. Lately the Russians captured 500 German tanks in one of their great victories. That was a heavy blow to the. Germans, but at one time they would have been able to replace; their losses before very long. But of late this has not been so easy. The output of tanks from the factories has been worrying the Germans, and the priority lately given to the produc tion of locomotives has been altered into one given to the manufacture oj tanks. The German tanks, which once, in collaboration with the Stukas,, lorded it over the battlefields, have now fallen on evil times. They have been hit in action and in their nests. No Briton likes to think of enemy civilians being killed by Allied bomb ing raids; but as such things must in evitably happen, there are few civilians for whom less regret will be ^^•(QSO
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