"DOWN AND OUT" SOON

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1943, Page 5

"DOWN AND OUT" SOON

LUFTWAFFE'S PROSPECT

(Special P.A. Correspondent.) Rec. 9.30 a.m. LONDON, July 4. Germany is facing an air debacle* says the air correspondent of the "Sunday Times." "We have reasonsable cause to hope that by the. end of the summer the Luftwaffe will be down and out," he says. He refers to the fact that bombing has begun to unbalance the German war machine and that the German wastage of aircraft on all fronts during June exceeded the inpvit of new aircraft to the Luftwaffo by a small but vital margin, and adds, "The German air force is in real and imminent danger of extinction. When the immediate reserve is used ijp the final debacle is certain to be swift." The correspondent estimates that the Luftwaffe's losses in June were about 200 more aircraft than the total production of operational types by Germany and the enslaved countries. On the other hand, the Allies' production exceeded wastage by over 3000 aircraft, as compared with the Luftwaffe's deficit of 200. The Allies are building in Britain, America, the Dominions, and Russia ov6r 8500 combat aircraft a. month out of a total of some 12,000 aircraft of all sorts. . The Axis Powers, including Japan and the enslaved countries, are building no more than 3200 operational aircraft a month out of a total of about 4200.