RAIDS ON REICH

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 5

RAIDS ON REICH

IF ITALY SURRENDERS

TWO-WAY ONSLAUGHT (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) Rec. 10 ajm. LONDON, July 27. If Italy surrenders Germany will probably soon feel a double weight of Allied day and night bombing, says the aviation correspondent of the "Daily Express." The capture of bases in northern Italy would provide bases for the massive British and American air forces in the Mediterranean Command to raid Germany from the south. Targets in southern Germany could be brought within 150 to 200 miles of such bases, and our lightest bombers could maintain an attack in support of heavier machines, just as Belgium, Holland, and northern France are being raided now. With the opening of such a two-way onslaught on Germany not a single German town would be free from a gigantic hammering. From airfields in southern Italy our planes would have to fly only 500 miles to reach the Rumanian oilfields. From northern Italian aerodromes, the [great Skoda munition works at Pilsen would be only 200 miles away. Munich, the home of the Nazi Party, would be the nearest big target of all—only'lso miles away. . To protect the southGerman frontiers facing Italy, the Germans would need as many interceptor planes and night fighters as they now have in the Ruhr and in western Europe.