AIR SUPERIORITY
ALLIED WEIGHT IN MIDDLE EAST
(Rec. 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 25. Forty Axis cargo vessels, totalling over 60,000 tons, have been sunk by the Allied air forces in the Middle East since June, and others totalling 80,000 tons have been damaged.
Since Tobruk fell 100 days ago, Allied bombers have raided it on 95 nights and have dropped 4000 tons of bombs.
On land, both sides are striving to build up their strength after the losses of the past six months. It is the job of the Allied air force? to destroy Axis convoys. Although at the moment the Allies have air superiority, there are many unknown factors, and if, for instance, Stalingrad falls, the Axis might switch its air forces to Egypt. A Cairo communique states: "Our patrols were active on Wednesday night. Enemy working parties patrols were attacked and dispersed. "Yesterday there was nothing to report from our land forces. Our tor-pedo-carrying aircraft damaged a large tanker escorted by destroyers northwest of Tobruk on Wednesday night. "There was a slight increase in enemy air activity over Malta on September 23-24. One Junkers was destroyed. "Air activity in the battle area yesterday was on a small scale. We lost one aircraft."—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 7
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