"SPECTACULAR REVERSE"
THE BEATEN LUFTWAFFE LONDON, July 15. " Probably the most spectacular reverse the German air force has suffered in the war." This is how the correspondent of the British United Press describes the air battle in Sicily. The occupation of six important airfields is already increasing British and American air supremacy. They are attacking the remaining Axis-held airfields with .continual relays of fighters and fighterbombers. The deterioration of the Axis air resistance in the last three days has been rapid. It, is estimated that barely half as many planes are being put into the air, whether from aerodromes in Sicily or the mainland.
Italian tank crews have been forced to go into action in an obsolete Fiat tank designed in 1918 and then called the '-' breakdown tank."-
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Evening Star, Issue 24919, 17 July 1943, Page 5
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