AXIS AIR WEAKNESS
LONDON SPECULATION
LONDON, September 21. Commenting on the feeble showing of the German air force in the Italian campaign, the "Daily Telegraph" air correspondent says:
"In spite of the Luftwaffe's strength in Italy of 500 bombers and 500 fighters, Field-Marshal Kesselring is not seriously contesting our air opera-
tiona, probably for the following reasons:—First, he is conserving planes for the defensive battles which he will soon have to fight for the chain of air bases round Foggia and Rome; secondly, he is short of supplies because of the Allied bombings of the northern rail centres; thirdly, the Italians are sabotaging the German communications between northern and southern Italy; and, fourthly, the Allied onslaughts have temporarily crippled the Luftwaffe.
"Kesselring's difficulties certainly must be serious to have prevented his challenging in strength our long-range fighter and bomber support during the battle for Salerno."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1943, Page 5
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145AXIS AIR WEAKNESS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1943, Page 5
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