ALLIED BOMBING OF REICH
Enemy Fighters Doubled
INCREASING SEVERITY
OF DAMAGE (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received October 17, 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, October 16.
From 100,000 to 120,000 men were engaged in the preparations and carrying out of a big raid, said Air Marshal Sir Richard Peck, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, and facing them there were perhaps nearly 1,000,000 Germans who would otherwise be taking their places in other sections of tlie war effort. , , , u“The enemy has nearly doubled his fighter forces since last January,” he said. “That indicates what a tremendous headache bombing is to him. Bomber losses are now less than five per cent. They were lower last month than in September, 1942.
“We arc doing far more damage tor every ton of bombs than a year ago.. vve are losing for each ton of bombs about half the number'of men and planes "t--lost in the early days.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 19, 18 October 1943, Page 5
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150ALLIED BOMBING OF REICH Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 19, 18 October 1943, Page 5
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