TANKS AND PLANES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 126, 30 May 1942, Page 6

TANKS AND PLANES

marked superiority but this did noM?hiH h Royal Air Force had Auchlnleck'a forces to advance raoidiv b f" expected enable General others have reason to know a series of h»«f Z^ a '. anders among aacsssK£ g Hr o o n ?r-" the P RA. pH^idT ru)t e pfay° an ff££ stage, the enemy flghTers' fendinggroundsJnd^hp^i? 3 ' 1 in . the first its part in the tank battle was not declsive Th« .'n P ' neS .? n them ~but another tank, or artillery, or both Not a answer" to a tank is hit from a plane, but there is difficult? in di r tank hard to enemy, and danger of KL fSendlv ?^ 111 " 8 fr ? e " d from the ground Is half hidden by dust and smoke th o « P ' ff iall y when limitations of tanks, and of air with th o possibllit , ies and the finally established-lboth sides are S h,T' are ? f course suggests that air power cannot win battles Xp€rlence to date a«> engaged; and, indeed, that it may prove to " un ?erous tanks than In naval engagements. prove to be le a s decisive in land