NAZI AIRCRAFT
LARGE NUMBERS IN SICILY AND SOUTHERN ITALY BASES COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER. ORDERS TO ITALIAN FLEET. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 19. The “Daily Telegraph's” Lisbon correspondent says a diplomatist who has just arrived fom Rome, estimates that 1500 German planes are based in Sicily and southern Italy. They are mostly bombers, including Stuka dive-bomb-ers. The numbers are about equally divided between Sicily and the southern Italian mainland. Smaller- concentrations of aircraft are in other parts of Italy. The Germans have made their airbases self-contained units, absolutely independent of Italian help or supplies. Italians are not admitted to the airfields. Much plunder from France contributes to the maintenance of these German air squadrons. French refrigerated railway vans from the occupied zone arrive regularly filled with food for the German airmen. The diplomatist added that the entire Italian fleet was still under orders in no circumstances to accept an engagement with the British fleet. German strategy in the Mediterranean evidently includes the future use of the remainder of the Italian fleet.’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1941, Page 5
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171NAZI AIRCRAFT Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1941, Page 5
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