DIRECT BOMBING OF U.S. INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 22, 21 October 1942, Page 5

DIRECT BOMBING OF U.S. INDUSTRY

Nazi Air Blitz Predicted NEW YORK, October 19. Germany will resume concentrated bombings of air bases in England, redouble Iter attacks, on American shipping, and directly bombard American industrial centres, predicts Colonel Hugh Knorr, a retired chief of the United States Army Air Corps, in an article in the “Mercury” magazine. uThe Germans at present have planes capable of raiding America at any time they choose, and have been testing bombers with an altitude of 40,000 feet, equipped with automatic pilots and improved bomb sights.” he writes. “I think the Germans will come from Norway, via the Arctic, aud strike, at the industrial region between Sa trit St. Marie and Niagara, and perhaps as far south as Pittsburgh. The present German air strength is barely holding its own because they froze their models early in the war, bin soon the new series of Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs will give them the finest fighting team in the world. To oppose it, we. have the Spitfire, which equals the Messerschmitt in the air-cooled class, and the Republic 1’47.- It remains to be seen whether, the latter is as good as the Foeke-Wulf. “I do not think we will knock out the German Air Force before the spring, but it is possible that the United Nations will have mastery of the air over Europe before the spring. 'The threat to this is our own navy, which is attempting to divide the production of Flying Fortresses and divert hundreds of these planes to the Pacific naval bases, under battleship admirals who have no business with land-based bombers because they do not know how to use them.”