Luftwaffe Spokesman Admits Allied Air Power
LONDON, March 6,
Tacit admission that the aerial balance has been tilted in the Allies’ favour was made by the Luftwaffe spokesman. General von Quade, broadcasting over Berlin radio.
He admitted that the Russians were continually intervening with ’ strong, almost always, superior aerial forces Squadrons of armoured battle-planes protected whole wings of fighters and attacked in successive wavps forcing the way for advancing infantry. There was also both day and night raiding of German aerodromes and supply routes, leaving out nothing to secure a decisive victory, which, however, the Luftwaffe had prevented.
He added that the Luftwaffe was the Wehrmacht’s operational reserve. It was independent of railways and roads. It alone, nearly always reached its goal. Transport planes were most effective in bringing relief to ground forces. A Stockholm message says it is reported from Berlin that the Air Ministry building was seriously damaged during the R.A.F.’s raid on Monday last.
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Northern Advocate, 8 March 1943, Page 3
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