ENEMY AIR COVER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 149, 26 June 1944, Page 3

ENEMY AIR COVER

NO COUNTER TO TYPHOONS

RUGBY, June 24.

The enemy air force in France has not found a counter to the vicious swoops of our rocket Typhoons, and has been forced to leave to the German army the task of protecting its armour by flak and camouflage, says a correspondent. Here in brief, he says, is the record of just one Normandy airfield on Friday: 20 out of 25 tanks were destroyed by eight Typhoons firing rockets in the Cuverville district, east of Caen, and six German fighters were destroyed and six damaged. On the other side of the account, the enemy can point to greater firepower from anti-aircraft batteries, which are claiming victims among home-based bombers which ■ continue to pound targets in France. The Lifftwaffe has now been able to build up a fairly powerful force, but its efforts seem to be almost wholly concentrated into the hours of darkness. Bombs have been dropped on the beaches, but the work of unloading supplies and reinforcements has gone on, and by the morning motor transport has been well on the way to the front line. The correspondent adds: "Germany has so pinned her faith on flak— ■which, formidable as it is, has failed to stop our raids—that the Luftwaffe has suffered in consequence."—B.O.W.