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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 203, 25 May 1944, Page 4

According to a German military commentator there are 3,000.000 British and American troops concentrated in the south of England ready for the invasion of the Continent. That must mean military camps and other establishments on an immense scale, far exceeding anything ever before recorded. Indeed it is probably the greatest concentration of men and arms in any limited area since the outbreak of hostilities. As such it must offer the enemy air forces targets of the kind about which airmen dream, but, as a cable message yesterday stated, “one of the most remarkable features of tbe latest turn in the west is the complete lack of enemy reaction against Britain. There is no record of a single enemy plane crossing the English Channel in daylight this month.” It is an amazing development, and the most cheering explanation of the enemy’s prolonged inactivity would be that he lacks the striking power. The facts, however, do afford further evidence that his days as master of the air have passed. No commander would await the assault if he possessed the means of smashing his enemy’s formations befofe they landed, and here, along the English coast, is the largest invasion force yet mobilized, yet only live enemy planes were over Britain in daylight during April, and night bombing has been on a very limited scale.