AIR WAR SWITCH

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1943, Page 3

AIR WAR SWITCH

Bombers And Fighters Blast Traffic In Italy JAMMED TRUCKS AS TARGETS Rec. 2.30 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 19. With Sicily now off trie target list, Allied aircraft in the Mediterranean are turning their attention to other targets. Powerful formations of both the Strategical and Tactical Air Forces have been used day and night to deal out the sort of sustained air hammering which the Axis has come to know so Avell in the last few months. . . .. Correspondents point out that tiie toe of Italy has only two main roads and railways leading out of it along either coast, and it is on these roads and railways that our airmen have found their best targets—bridges, I marshalling yards and vehicles of all kinds. Their favourite plan is for our bombers to go in first to create a good traffic block, and then for fighters and fighter-bombers to rake the jammed trucks and wagons with bullets and cannon shells. In some places these tactics have proved so successful that the enemy has been forced to make use of sea traffic off the ccast. Waves of our aircraft are constantly on patrol to make the most of these targets also. Other railway targets further afield in Southern Italy have also been attacked.