Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-05-14 | Page 2 | Allies Shoot down 2000 Planes and Lose 770 in Africa Drive

I Q ef STATUTE MILE 4 YUGOSLAVIA Bologna ROME r- r er 4 S. S J ti j C I i u i i S ls t 1 t 5 5 5 Si 12 PJ S J 5 I 1 if r ft Sg etTe k j il r Associated Press Frett Map Mop Sardinia Sicily and Italy Get Attention Allied pl planes nes I smashed at targets on the Italian mainland and island possessions possessions pos pos- sessions while a British naval force bombarded Pantelleria Pantel leria lenia island which lies between Tunisia and Sicily 1 f Allies Shoot Down DOn 2000 Planes Iane And Lose in In Africa Drive I I t WASHINGTON May 14 AThe jf A The allied air forces of north Africa Africa Af Af- rica destroyed approximately 2000 enemy planes while losing about in the six months and three days between the landings In French North Africa and the collapse collapse collapse col col- col- col lapse of axis resistance May 11 The war department reported this Friday in a h review of the spectacular part played by the al allied allied al- al allied lied team under Air Chief Marshal Marshal Marshal Mar Mar- Sir Arthur W. W Tedder It said that In the tho first 11 days of May alone the score was axis planes destroyed against 49 allied aircraft lost a ratio of 6 to 1 and added that from May 7 1 the the day Tunis and fell the the enemy air arm literally danced to the allies' allies tune losing approximately 11 planes for every allied plane brought down This score however r w wa was s a a. fragment of ot the air tion to the north African n the department contin since far away strategic i bO Ings against German centers fitted the pattern o of v strategy The campaign provides provides' first scale large demonstration demonstrate the of an n I striking force employing jj all all' capabilities In an Integrated tern said the report J JIt t v It is an example of t th the result of ot coordination of all aU h tj of military airplanes of ai air enabling the reduction of t the of a a. force required to do a job lob job i shortening the time require d do it