NAZIS MAY BOMB U.S.A.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 248, 21 October 1942, Page 5

NAZIS MAY BOMB U.S.A.

BATTLE FOR AIR SUPREMACY.

P.A, Ca-ble.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.

Germany will resume concentrated bombings of airbases in, Ehgland. re-. acuble " her attacks on American shipping and directly bombard American industrial centres, predicts Colonel Hugh Knerr, retired Chief of the United States, Army Air Corps in an article in the magazine Mercury. "The Germansi at present liave planes capablsi of raiding America at any time they choose and have been testing bombers capable of 40,009 feet altitude, equipped with autoCnatic pilots and improved bombsights " he says. "I think the Germans will come from Norway via the Arctic and strike, at the industrial region between Sault St. Marie and Niagara, and perhaps as far south as Pittsburgh. "At present German air strength is barely holding its own because they froze their models early in the war, but soon a new series of Messerschmitts and Fockewulfs will give her the finest fighting team in the world. To oppose it we will have the' Spitfire, which, equals the Messerschmitt in the air-coolcd class. and the Republic P47 which remains to be seen if it is as good as the Fockewulf. I do not think we can knock out the German air force before the spring, but it is possible that the United Nations will have the mastery of the air over Europe before spring. The threat to this is our own Navy, which is attempting to divide Flying Fortress production and divert hundreds, of these planes to Pacific naval bases under battleship admirals who have no business with land-based bombers because they do not know how to use them."