AUSTRALIAN GOAL
MORE AIR STRENGTH Reed 6 p.m. Canberra, March 10. The Australian Government’s aim was to put to the Allied leaders a case for increased air strength in the South-west Pacific area, which would permit swift ana massive blowt at the enemy, said the Prime Minister, Mr. J. Curtin, to-night. Stressing that such air strength did not yet exist, Mr. Curtin said tire Bismarck Sea victory was achieved by a brilliant concentration rather than by overwhelming numerical superiority.
The total weight of bombs used was 226 tons, as against 1500 tons droppea on Essen in less than 40 minutes. Cable messages from America and Britaii- indicated an inclination on the part of Press commentators to think that the destruction of the Japanese convoy established the fact that overwhelming air superiority had b?en established north of Australia. Disclosure of the small forces used, however, put the Bismarck Sea victory in its correct perspective. When the South-west Pacific Command had at its disposal forces for concentrated bombing like the Essen raid the task of blasting the Japanese out of their ring of northern bases wculJ become immeasurably easier.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 58, 11 March 1943, Page 5
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