Allied Air Jaws Closing Tightly Around Rommel
British Official Wireless.
Rec. 9.45 p.m. Rugby, Mar. 21). An agency correspondent in Tunisia says that air jaws of the Allied pincers are closing more tightly. One is pressing Rommel from the south and the other from the west. I "The most powerful air force thel Allies have yet put into the field is divided into two sections— the Western Desert air force, which followed the army almost 2000 miles, and the Tunisian air force, composed of R.A.F. , Colonial, Dominion and American pilots with what could be saved of the former French air force slationed in North Africa. They are all united under the command of Air Chief Marshal Tedder. Behind these forces is another operating from Malta whose main task is to cut off the enemy's shipping supplies, which must come from south Italy and Sicily to Tunisia. There are also fighters which defend night and day our own shipping bases stretching from Algeria to Egypt, Palestine and Syria."
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1943, Page 3
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