The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-01
Lieut.. Gen. Arnold OF u. S.
Air Corps Tells Ger
many, die Is Cast"
COLOGNE IS ALMOST
BLASTED FROM EARTH
1900 British BOmbers in
Greatest Aerial Attack in
History of All Wars
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE
Omitted Press staff Correspondent
London, June 1-(UP)-
Lieut.. Gen. Henry H. Arnold,
Chief of the United States
Army Air Corps, said today
that an American Air Force,
using its own fields and
ground crews, would soon
join the British in bombing
Germany on an unprece-
denied scale.
Soon a great armada OF 5000 AL
lied planes-United States and Brit
ish-will be flying against the Riech,
1t was stated
While British planes staged q
carnival OF victory rolls" in the
sky over London, Gen. Arnold ended
secrecy around the consultations
which he and other U. s. war lead
ers have been holding in London
and announced that balanced
force of American boInbers and
fighters soon will join the attacks
on Germany.
I'VE shall hit the enemy hard and
relentlessly until his military power
has been broken" he said.
I'VE are determined to get every
possible fighting plane into the
fight. No combat planes are being
kept back in the United States be-
yond the absolute minimum re-
quired for tactical training.
Nazis Cannot Stop Them
my visit has, I hope, FASTENED
the day when our air arms shall
join in an air offensive against the
enemy which he cannot meet, de-
feat or survive. Gen. George @.
Marshall (cllief Of army staff said
the other day that American troops
will land in France. 1t is obvious
that no offensive against Nazi-oc-
cupied Europe can succeed without
air superiority and we mean to have
it."
AS Arnold spoke at press con-
ference, Royal Air Force fighter
planes, 10000 feet over London,
made victory loops to celebrate the
British Saturday night raid on Col
ogne; the greatest ever made by
any air force against any target
Londoners waved at them and gave
the thumbs-up victory signal.
At the same time the government
made it known that the Germans.
in a vicious vengeance raid had
bombed during the night ancient
Canterbury, the cradle Of Christi.
anity in England, destroying at leas'
one of its historic churches.
Revealing that he and his asso.
ciates visiting London had prac.
tically concluded talks with Prime
Minister Winston Churchill. Air
Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal,
chief of staff of the Royal Air Force
and other British leaders, Arnold
said that his talks:
Ahmed at further development OF
the original agreements between the
British and United States govern.
ments looking to the maximum
pact of our combined air strength
upon the common enemy.
Intend To Win In Air
Gen. George G. Marshall, chief
of staff of the United States Army,
said the other day that American
troops will land in France.
"It is obvious no offensive against
Nazi occupied Europe can succeed
without air superiority, and we
mean to have it,"
He called the gigantic British air
raid on Cologne Saturday night q
wonderful exhibition, and he added:
1.-THE sooner we have those every
night with the United States air
forces as a component part, the
better off we will be-"
1t was now established that in
the Cologne raid, the greatest in
the history of aviation, the British
used 1900 planes. One thousand
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