Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-04-28 | Page 1 | Day and Night Raids May Shorten War

DA DAY Y AND NIGHT RAIDS MAY SHORTEN WAR Anglo U. S. S Teamwork In Air Is Victory Key Says RAF Leader NEW YORK YORI April 28 UP Air lP Air Vice Marshal F. F MacNeece Foster of the R RAF A F said Wednesday that daylight precision bombing by the British may well greatly shorten the war in Europe While a few months ago the American and British held somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what different views as to the best method for bombing Foster said I this is now the R It A F F's s conception I of the night and day bomber attacks attacks attacks at at- tacks That they are both essential and complementary and that if carried out on the necessary scale they are capable of producing decisive decisive decisive de de- de- de results w which h i c h may well greatly shorten the war in Europe with all the consequences that would follow enabling us both to turn over our full weight upon Japan More Aircraft The one great need for an effective effective effective ef ef- ef- ef air offensive by day over Germany is more aircraft I know this fact is equally appreciated in both Washington and London Fosters Foster's audience was the Cana Cana- Canadian Canadian dian club of New York There has b bee been e e n a striking change since the time a few months ago that British thought daylight precision bombing was Inadequate ll a and the Americans con cn considered night bombing of ar ls I t inaccurate he v The United States army army air forces he continued have become become be be- come increasingly impressed by the possibility of accurate night bombing due to the extraordinary extraordinary- development of technical ments meats R It RAF A 1 F Also Impressed The royal air force have been correspondingly impressed by the development of day bombing The Theraid Theraid Theraid raid on to to take a single single single sin sin- gle example shows that day bombers are capable of accurate bombing of a highly fortified area and that in the process day bombers bombers bomb bomb- ers have been able to take a heavy toll of the enemy fighters which attacked them Foster remarked that Germany and Japan put much faith in the use of air power and he added But now the air forces of our two great countries and those of Russia have taken up the chal chal- lenge The is a great and formidable foe but it has has' reached its peak and has entered on its decline V The air forces of the allies on the contrary are in process of active active ac ac- ac tive expansion expansion both both as regards production and operational development development development devel devel- on the field of battle