ITALIAN AIR PILOTS
FAILURE OVER BRITAIN ROME, Nov. 7. (Received Nov. 7, at 11 p.m.) The Giorhale d'ltalia admits that Italian pilots are finding increasing difficulties over Britain, attributing their failure to the disadvantage of the personnel being untrained in night flying and not knowing the climatic conditions. The Messagero, similarly excusing the pilots, says: " The Italians must become accustomed to the uniformity of landscape, and also the fact that operations over Britain must be undertaken solely by instruments. The most difficult task is the insertion of the Italian Air Gor'ps into the extremely complex organism of the Luftwaffe." The paper admits the difficulties of successfully evading British antiaircraft guns, whose range changes every day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24450, 8 November 1940, Page 7
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