AMERICAN PIN-POINTING
Silt —As one who writes for many periodicals, especially aeronautical periodicals, and as a writer who specialises in writing about American
daylight bombing, I congratulate you on your article " American Pin- Pointing," in which the tasks of the U.S. Air Forces operating over Europe are excellently described. The imagination of the British public has been captured by the 'magnificent achievements of the U.S. Air Forces, and we owe a tremendous debt to our gallant allies who, though they have been in action in Europe for under a year, have already played a great part in the coming liberation of oppressed peoples. Whenever I read my morning newspaper I cannot help feeling an admiration for the indomitable airmen who fly their machines in broad daylight over many hundreds of miles of German-occupied territory, their preience rapidly given by the " Achtung! " broadcasts, and defying the thorough Nazi defence systems (which are unequalled anywhere in the world) ; I can imagine the American airmen battling their way through clouds of anti-aircraft smoke made by exploding shells, pouring round after round of ammunition into enemy fighters as they fight running battles for hours, and brave gunners bleeding to death as they train their sights on enemy machines, struggling to bring their aircraft back to safety, and ceasing to fire only when they have dropped from exhaustion.
ill King's Avenue, Rhyl, N. Wales. ANTHONY MARTIN.
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