LUFTWAFFE’S LAST THROW?

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 83, 7 March 1945, Page 5

LUFTWAFFE’S LAST THROW?

REAPPEARANCE OVER BRITAIN LONDON, Alar. 6.

The suddenly stepped-up enemy air activity against Britain may be the beginning of the last throw in the campaign the Germans have been preparing in recent months, says the Daily Express aviation correspondent. It is believed that many German air crews were specially trained for activity over Britain, and the variety of planes used on Saturday night indicates that the Germans are using their limited resources to the full. There were no heavy bombers.

• The Germans are using a new type of flying bomb in the attacks against England. The correspondent says the new bombs are larger and faster than the original flying bombs. Those launched on Southern England last week caused heavy damage and casualties. The Times aviation correspondent says there is reason to believe that th'e new flying bombs are launched from ramps in Holland or on the island of Sylt, which is the nearest German territory to England. They have a longer range, and it is reasonable to assume that they have a bigger warhead.

If this is so it means the flying bomb has been completely redesigned, because in its original form the VI could not be given greater range and made to carry a heavier load of explosive. The enemy, in making a weapon which could be fired from a longer range, may be anticipating the day when he would lose possession of Dutch soil.