WORST OF WAR
AXIS AIR REVERSE RESISTANCE WEAKENS LONDON, July 15. “Probably the most spectacular reverse the German air force has suffered in the war.” This is how the British United Press coi'respondent describes the air battle of the Sicily occupation. Six important airfields are already increasing the British and American air supremacy. They are attacking the remaining Axis-held airfields with continual relays of fighters and fighter-bombers. 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 are forced to go into action in archaic Fiat tanks designed in 1918 and then called the “breakdown tank,”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21149, 17 July 1943, Page 3
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