AIR DEFENCE PROBLEM.
Discussing the problem of, preventing the bomber from getting through, Mr Richard Hastier writes:— An area of 20,000 square miles ■ has to be defended. Compare the 20,000 square miles to a gigantic window, and the enemy raider to a fly. Think of the magnitude of the task of keeping an odd fly or two off that window, and you will begin to realise something of the task of the Royal Air Force. The Fighter Command, helped by the Observer Corps and the anti-aircraft gunners, have combined to keep that window virtually clean of flies ciu.vng daylight. At night, the problem might be compared with trying to catch a fly in the dark—a fly that travels at something like 300 miles an hour. So the problem is a big one.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 44, 2 December 1940, Page 4
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