BOMBING EFFECTS.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 3

BOMBING EFFECTS.

OBSERVATIONS BY GENERAL ARNOLD. GERMANS BEING KNOCKED GROGGY. LONDON, December 11. The United States air chief, General H. H. Arnold, who is at pjresent visiting Italy, said in an interview: “If.the Germans are not knocked completely out of the war by the time the second front is due to open they are going to be too groggy from the air attacks to offer much resistance.” General Arnold gave details of the rapid building up of the American heavy bomber strength in Britain, and said that ,as the number of bombers increased the percentage of losses would decrease. The Germans had tried everything to stop the Fortresses, but the American technicians had met every form of attack. He said he believed Germany would be bombed from every side and that the Germans had nothing ahead of them but increasing numbers of homeless, greater difficulties and few comforts. Their defences would be spread by the operations from I-taly to Russia. General Arnold said that the Japanese had recently produced a new type of fighter which was faster than the Zero and more heavily armed, but its appearance had failed to upset the Allied air superiority in the Pacific.