LARGE NAZI AIR FORCE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 49, 26 January 1944, Page 5

LARGE NAZI AIR FORCE

DRIVEN OFF BY WARHAWKS

(10.35 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. The Columbia Broadcasting System’s Algiers correspondent says that the first indications of the Germans’ organised defensive measures appeared late yesterday afternoon when long-range shells poured into Anzio and a heavy force of planes attacked the beaches.

It appears at the moment', however, that the enemy has struck too late. Our initial gains have thrown him so much off balance that he will not be able to recover. The British United Press correspondent at Allied headquarters says that after a wild air battle over the Anzio-Nettuno area yesterday, Warhawks, although outnumbered, drove off 30 .Messerschmitt 109’s and Focke-Wulf 190’s. Tho Germans fled after a Fock-Wulf had been destroyed and a Messerschmitt probably destroyed and two other planes damaged A German High Command communique claims that as a result of these raids three destroyers and one merchantman of 6000 tons were sunk, and the destruction of three more ships totalling 26,000 tons can be taken as certain. Also, 11 transports were damaged, some heavily.