RISING AIR STRENGTH

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 3

RISING AIR STRENGTH

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/ LONDON, June 8. Lord. Halifax, the British Ambassador at Washington, spoke today of what the air strength of the United Nations will meari.;tq the Axis. He said that Lubeck, Rostock, Cologne, Essen, and,, Tokio were the first real doses .of a pretty potent medicine r, we had long been brewing for. Hitler and the other members of his gang. The Allied real and crushing air superiority, the Russian campaign, and anti-submarine effectiveness gave solid ground for confidence among

the United Nations and for misgivings ' in. the Axis. "The American air force will soon be with us in the business of bombing Germany in a big way, and the blows we shall strike together will be powerful," he said. "These raids.are the first unmistakable signs of what we have all been waiting to see —the emergence of a real and crushing air superiority." He said the German aircraft industry was incapable of further great expansion. He believed that Britain had achieved at least parity in planes with

Germany, and the United States was

producing in a month something like all the aircraft that Japan could turn out in a year.

Senator Elmer Thomas, chairman of th^ United States Appropriations Committee, said in Washington today that the production of planes in the United States was now nearly 5000 a month.