AIR SUPREMACY
CLAIMED BY RUSSIANS OVER 2,009 AXIS PLANES DESTROYED IN MAY. KUBAN FIGHTING CONTINUING (British Official Wireless.) 1 RUGBY, June 1. A Moscow communique reports that fighting continued today north-east of Novorossisk. Router's Moscow correspondent says that fighting is going on unceasingly both in the mountain district north-cast of Novorossisk, and along the Kuban River estuary. Approaches to Novorossisk through the mountains are difficult as the terrain favours the defence. The Germans can also get in supplies by air from the Crimea.
In the fiat country on' both sides of the Kuban estuary, the time for a large-scale attempt to drive the Germans into the sea has not yet come. Much of the present fighting is conducted from flat-bottomed boats and only at the height of summer does a sufficient area dry up to enable bigger operations.
.. .The Moscow radio today claimed that the Soviet air force had gained complete command of the air over the Russian front. The radio reported that the Nazis had lost 2069 planes between May 2 and May 29 in air combats and Russian attacks on German airfields.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1943, Page 3
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