AIR OFFENSIVE
ON WESTERN EUROPE SEVERAL PURPOSES SERVED INCLUDING PREPARATION FOR INVASION. STRATEGIC SOFTENING OF ENEMY FRONT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) RUGBY, March 26. The terrific destruction being wrought by R.A.F. and 'American bombers on German factories, Üboat bases and ports in continuous and increasing. The air offensive is, as a well-informed London observer points out, the link between the Tunisian campaign and the approaching invasion of Europe and the struggle on the Russian front. The Allied purpose is not only to deprive the German forces of weapons, to detain forces from going to the east', to cut down U-boat production and pin down in the west at least enemy fighter aircraft, but also to gain increasing air superiority in order to effect a strategic softening of the enemy’s Wetsern front, as a preliminary to invasion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1943, Page 3
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140AIR OFFENSIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1943, Page 3
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