The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
German People Given
 Advice From Russia
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attack levelly from low altitude and then become lighters are better than the dive-bombers.
 This contention is based largely on the reports of veteran British pilots who say that the Junkers-87, Ger manys best dive-bomber, is slow and cumbersome and almost de- fenSeles.
 Dive- -BOmbers Superior
 However, It is acknowledged that the new American dive -bombers are infinitely superior to the original Nazi Stukas. Some observers pointed out that the RAF provided a blanket of fighters over Dieppe strong enough to protect any sort of dive-bomber.
 United States Army flying fort reSs raids on German occupied ter ritory meanwhile emerged as a vitally important feature of the Dieppe raid and as portent of new, early attacks on the French invasion coast.
 Official reports assessing the final results of the Dieppe raid showed that it was far more than a grand scale Commando attack. As part of 1t the British fleet fired hundreds of shells into key targets and planes in addition to providing protective umbrella dropped 261 ,000 pounds of high explosive and Augmentation hav,ohe 41 Ly.0nLy 0,yt onav1ou Sfr0nO points and kill ground troops.
 Allied quarters, assessing the role of the giant B-17 Boeing bombers in the second front rehearsal" attack on Dieppe, said they were the greatest threat to the Germans after the 1,O0O-scale plane raids of the Royal Air force.
 Fortresses in a raid which was clearly a follow-up of the Dieppe operation and a hint at other, big ger combined operations, made a devastating attack yesterday on the railroad center of Amiens.
 In three straight days, while the Allied ground forces were preparing to attack Dieppe, while they were attacking and while they were re- turning to their depots, the fort resses had shattered the railroad yards of three of the most impor- tant communications centers behind the French coast.
 With Dieppe, these objectives of the Army air corps, undoubtedly a part of the major operation, covered an area extending 35 miles along the coast, and about 30 miles inland.
 First they hda attacked Rouen. B miles inland from Dieppe. Then they had attacked Abbeville. 35 miles up the coast from Dieppe. Yesterday they attacked AmienS, which is 25 miles inland from Abbeville, 60 miles northeast of Rouen and 55 miles east of Dieppe.
 Reports to United States Army airforce and Royal air force head quarters left little doubt that the railroad yards at all three towns the only ones from which the Dieppe area could be quickly reinforced by rail, had been knocked out.
 In the entire three days of high altitude precision bombing not single fortress had been lost.
 Fighter pilots escorting the fort. resses yestreday said IS direct bomt hits had been made on targets a AmienS.
 Royal Air force, American Army Canadian and Allied fighter squad. rons, totaling more than 500 planes made the greatest single sweep eve carried over the continent yesterda. as the fortresseS bombed Amiens The sweep was carefully co-ordi mated with the fortress raid to cove an area of French invasion territor. which the Allies may hit soon agail in greater force.
 Even aside from the fortresses role, it was indicated that the aeria feature of the Dieppe operation wa even more important than the tes made of the German ground de lenses.
 Allied military quarters asserte' that as the result of the Dieppe at tack, in which it was now officiall estimated that in addition to 91 Ger man planes shot down about twic that number were probably destroye' or were seriously damaged for to tai of 273, enemy air pressure ol Russia might be reduced.
 Germans Short of Planes
 It was necessary for the German during the Dieppe attack to drav endorsements of planes from al over occupied France, Belgium an even Holland.
 The heavy enemy losses must b replaced, even if the German al force in the west Is not increase beyond its original strength 1 preparation for new Allied attack
 Experts said that though the Ger mans would not necessarily have [ send planes from the Russian fror to the west, they would have { divert to the coast planes bein completed in Germany which ha been earmarked for Russia.
 The air ministry said that dur ing the Dieppe attack Wednesda Allied planes fired tens of thousand of rounds of machine gun bullet