PROBLEMS REALISED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 38, 15 February 1943, Page 3

PROBLEMS REALISED

Allied Air Force In Indian Theatre

SERVICE CHIEF'S TOUR

Lieutenant-General Bissell, Commander of the United States. Army Air Force, India, at a Press conference in New Delhi, stated that last month the Tenth United States Air Force carried out 34 offensive missions in Burma. The objectives were communications, docks, shipping and railroads. From China, he said, American planes raided Burma and 14 times. Referring to the visit of the British leader, Field-Marshal Sir John Dill, and the United States Chief of .Air Staff, LieutenantGeneral H. H. Arnold, General Bissell said: "We expect great results from the visit. Many of our problems in the past have not been fully understood, but they are now realised and we will receive help for their solution." Following the Casablanca conference, Lieutenant-General H. H. Arnold, Chief of the United States Army Air Corps, and Major-General B. B. Somervill, Commander of Supply Services, visited the Middle East,'states an earlier Cairo message. Major-General Carl A. Spaatz, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Air Force in Tunisia, has also been in the Middle East. General Arnold attended co-ordination conferences, then made a tour of the Libyan Desert with Major-General L. H. Brereton, Commander of the United States Air Force in the Middle East.