LUFTWAFFE STRENGTH
Predicted Incapable Of Major Offensive LOXDQX, October 14. The German Air Force has 'been decisively beaten and is no longer an effective fighting force, says the air, correspondent of the “Nows Chronicle, who has returned after a three weeks' tour of the Mediterranean air bases. “In the Mediterranean area.” he says, “the Allied air forces have achieved not only air superiority, but absolute 'supremacy. They (blew the German and ’■ltalian air forces out of the skies and 'forced what remained of the Luftwaffe .to retire to central and northern Italy, leaving the troops to fight without any : air cover. In R A IF. language, the Luftwaffe has ‘had it.’ “From evidence in the Mediterranean alone, it is not too bold a prophecy to say that from now till the end of the war .the Luftwaffe will have great nuisance ivalue tout never again will be capable of undertaking a major offensive."
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 18, 16 October 1943, Page 6
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153LUFTWAFFE STRENGTH Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 18, 16 October 1943, Page 6
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