World Battlefronts: Victory is Nearer

In the great air war over western Europe, the Allies are winning on every count. Many airmen now hope, and some firmly believe, that their victory will be so complete, so rapid and so far-reaching in its effects that Germany will be defeated this year.

That may be too large a hope. General George C. Marshall said flatly last week that it is an impossible and deceptive hope. But there can now be no doubt that the air offensive is helping the Allied armies and hastening Axis defeat on all fronts.

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