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the Russian front a great many aircraft which types are 
no longer being built in German factories. He thinks that 
Germany under-rated the ability of the Russian Air Force 
and thought that these second-rate planes could operate 
successfully against them. The Russians have experienced 
no trouble in destroying these planes. The Henkel plane 
was faster than the new Messerschmitt. On the whole the 
most useful plane the Germans have against the Russians is 
the Junkers 88, which is as good or better than anything of 
that type that the Russians have.
          He states that the Germans are putting 20 mm. 
cannon in their fighters; some have 12 mm. machine guns. 
Stalin said that all fighters must have cannon in modern 
warfare. He has equipped all his fighters with cannon or 
heavy calibre machine guns, and stated the Russiaus proposed 
to have no fighters without cannon or the heaviest calibre 
machine guns.
          The Russiaus put their old fighter planes on the 
front, and these have a speed of only 440 kilometres per 
hour, but they have been very useful and successful against
many of the planes that the Germans put on Russia's western 
front. They have 7 to 8 thousand of these older type 
fighters.
     The new fighters are of three types. They have 
approximately 2000 of these at the front, and are producing
1200 a month. The speediest of these newer one motor 
fighters is the M.I.G.3, with heavy armour and cannon, and 
a speed of 650 kilometres per hour. The second fighter is 
the L.A.G.3, which carries a cannon, has heavy machine guns
and a speed of 590 k.p.h. The third is the J.K.1; this 
carries a cannon, and has a speed of 590 k.p.h.
            Stalin said the Russians have three new medium 
bomber types. First, a slngle-motor bomber, flying at 
510 k.p.h., for close range bombing.    Second, the 2-motor 
dive bomber, flying at 540 k.p.h. with a flying range of
800 kilometres. The third bomber, which is only just being