Sicily Completes Our Air Cover Of Italy

Northern Advocate, 26 July 1943, Page 2

Sicily Completes Our Air Cover Of Italy

cßec. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, July 24. Apart from its major importance as a jumping-off place for invasion of the European mainland. Allied possession of Sicily, when achieved, will complete our bombing cover of Europe, says the “Daily Mail.” Hitler’s Balkan Allies. Rumania. Bulgaria and Hungary so far have escaped lightly but will soon be completely ■open to attack from our heavy bombers. Two great objectives. Pioesti oilfields, Hitler’s only source of natural oil, and the great Skoda works, hitherto bombed from England only with difficulty, now come within our range. The occupied territories of Greece. Yugoslavia and Albania also come within scope of operations of not only our air forces but also Allied fleets operating from Sicily”