The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
Supremacy In Air For Allies
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 Terming the bombardment of Berlin as "the greatest battle of all, ," Sinclair said that in January alone the NaN capital rocked under the weight of more bombs than have fallen on London throughout the war.
 Little output can the enemy have been obtaining from it's hundreds of factories" he said. Mot only have they before their eyes the physi- cal destruction of the eInblems of Nad power, its chancelleries. the brown house and Gestapo head quarters, but in the present con- fusion and memories of broken promises they see a crack appearing in the Nad ediflce itself. We should be wearing long faces now if we had lost one-quarter of the re- sources the Germans lost in the last year."
 Photographs of Centers
 In the photographs of devastated German war centers, Sinclair said, i've can read some, at least. of the reasons why Germany has no longer abundant manpower and materials to throw into an offensive"
 Against four -fifths of the German fighter strength the Allies have "de- stroyed production; we have denied resources; we have interrupted con1- munications, and have carried the war onto German soil," he added.
 Sinclair said that the vast con- Struction program now is nearing completion in Britain to provide bases for RAF and American bomb- CT forces after four and a half years of work on "the most gigantic civil engineering and building program ever undertaken in this country"
 Since the war began Britain has laid down concrete tracks equiva- lent to a 30-foot road running from London to Picking, together with 100000 buildings, he said.
 More than 2,500 British planes were lost in bombing operations from Britain in the last year, with nearly 18,000 crewmen killed or cap- tured, Sinclair said.
 Germany now is using the great est concentration of anti-aircraft guns and Searchlights ever em- ployed, and the NaN fighter force lis much greatr than that with which we fought and broke the en- emy in the Battle of Britain" the air minister reported. Our losses are becoming progreS- sively less heavy compared with the effects we are achieving" he said.
 'The ratio of casualties to the weight of bombs dropped is steadily falling despite the fact that the range of our attacks has been stead- fly increasing"
 He said the British and United States bomber forces ahye com l pelled the German high command despite the NaN retreats in Russia to tie down four-fifths of it's fighter strength in the west for the protec- ton of German factories. Sinclair warned that Britain must expect still heavier air attacks by the enemy.
 His powers of striking back are far from negligible" he added. However, the British defensei were being improved constantly, lnG said.
 Sinclair said the Japanese nox have lost the air superiority in thu Pacific and Far Eastern theaters ai result of the building up of Allied air forces there.
 we look forward to the day wileE victory in Europe will release all oul air forces to fight the Japanese he said.
 Reviewing the Allied bombing of. fensive against Germany. einclatl said:
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