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ALLIED AIRPOWER.
WHERE THE NAZIS FAILED.
The Japanese Weakness.
MELBOURNE, June 14.--"'If the
RAP sustains its scale of attacks on
Germany and Italy it might lead to
the collapse of the Axis poae. but
I do not say that the war WHl be
ended by air power or any particular
form of attack except by a combina
tion of all forces," said Air Vice
Marshal George Jones, Chief of the
Air Staf, at a Constitutional Club
luncheon today.
There was no limit to the size of
alrpower, he said, and the bigger the
Allied air forces could be built up
the quicker hostilities would end. No
serious invasion of the continent of
Europe could be made until the
Allied Nations had complete air
superiority. ,h were being taken
to ensure the Allies had air
mastery.
To hold air supremacy, he said,
there must be a constant flow in the
production of fighter craft, bombers
and training planes. Aircraft were
used up at a tremendous rate. They
were not like battleships and were
subject to all kinds of faults. The
supply must be uninterrupted just
thesame as the supply of ammuni
tion. The Allies had to out-produce
the enemy.
Although Germany built up a big
aircraft industry before the war, he
said, the Nazis failed in the Battle
for Britain because they did not
have the trained crews that Britain
could bring to bear against them.
That was a turning point for which
the United Nations had to be thank
ful.
The Japanese weakness in the air
at present, he said. was because of
their inability to produce aircraft
beyond a certain figure. The industry
there had not been organised to the
high standard attained by the Allies.
The quality of the enemy air attacks
had fallen off because the Japanese
had not been able to train crews as
effectively as had the Allies. When
Japan entered the war Australia had
27 flying squadrons, but she now had
several hundred. The big training
organisation that had been set up in
this country stood her in good stead
when Japan began hostilities.
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