From Italy, New York Times Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger filed a circumstantial account of the "secret weapon" which the Germans apparently hope to use against invasion fleets in the English Channel.
According to Sulzberger, ample evidence indicates that the weapon is a "crewless, radio-controlled aircraft, which, loaded to capacity with explosives and just enough fuel to get it to its target, can be accurately directed to its objective." Allied experts learned of the device and put the finger on its main weakness: complex launching mechanisms needed to get the projectile-aircraft into flight. Allied reconnaissance planes spied out the emplacements built to...
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