ALLIED BOMBERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25814, 9 April 1945, Page 6

ALLIED BOMBERS

OVER GERMANY AT WILL MARCH BIGGEST MONTH OF WAR (Rec. 0.20 a.m.) LONDON, Apl. 8. “We can now fly anywhere over Germany, at any time, and in any weather,” declared General H. H. Arnold, commander of the United States Army Air Force, at a press conference. He added that March was the biggest air month of the war, with a daily average of more than 5000 planes in the air. “We had jet-planes before the Germans, but did not use them because they were defensive and not offensive weapons,” he said. General Carl Spaatz, who was present. interposed: “If we had put our production into jet-planes instead of fighters we would not have won the air war by now.” With an increasing number of German airfields in our hands. Allied single-engined fighter-bombers can now be sent to Berlin, say agency correspondents at Allied headquarters. The Allied tactical air forces can be let loose for low-level attacks against the capital. We are only about 180 miles from the nearest Russian' lines. With this distance daily shrinking, there will soon be no part of central Germany beyond the reach of any Allied air weapons. Attacks against communications have become so efficient that few targets can now be found. There is a striking paucity of rail traffic, and the whole German communication system is chaotic.