NOTES ON THE WAR NEWS
R.A.E. OVER REICH
MACHINES AND TARGETS
In the critical days ahead for the United Nations, emphasised by the British Minister of Supply (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton) in today's news, the brightest spot in a grim vista is undoubtedly the rapid rise of Allied air power. This is now superior to that, of the Axis in all but a few guarded zones where lack of Allied air bases is a handicap. Over Western Europe, including Western Germany, the R.A.F., soon to be supplemented by American air power, men, and machines, is predominant. So is it also in the Middle East, including the Eastern Mediterranean. It is rising over that of Japan in the Far- East. ;, .".■... ■ . , .:.
Only in the Western Mediterranean; where the Allies have no. suitable air bases —Gibraltar and Malta' being too restricted—and in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe, including Russia, and in the inner circle of the new Japanese Empire of conquest, have the Axis Powers still superiority. Norway should be included in the European area. . '■ - , The stimulus of extra air/ strength, absent in the past, is felt strongly in China, where, the Chinese armies, encouraged by the success of American bombers, ranging far and wide over China and even reaching Formosa, are pinning the Japanese in Chekiang and gaining considerable successes here and there. In the Middle East the j R.A.F., reinforced by American bombers, has, more than any other factor, checked the Axis in the attack on Egypt and the( Suez Canal, with their hinterlands in Palestine, Syrian and Irak. Long-range bombing by the U.S. force has penetrated to Greece in the latest onslaught on an Italian fleet at Navarino, and in the west as far as Sardinia. But the Western Mediterranean's still an Axis aircraft and submarine hunting ground, perilous to Allied convoys sailing to Malta. These do not gqt through unscathed, as the loss of the carrier. Eagle-shows, and an earlier experience with convoys bound for Tobruk and Malta.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 39, 14 August 1942, Page 4
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