U.S. OBSERVERS.
IN BRITISH BOMBERS.
TO REPORT PERFORMANCES. SAX FRANCISCO. April 11. In the role of observers. American Army offiewe may ride along with British pilots when the first new-American-made four-motor bombers raid Germany. Reporting this, authoritative sources in Washington explained the observers' assignment" would be to report to the U.S. Air Corps on the. performance of the lonsr-range craft under actual combat condition*. With a similar mission, American naval officers have been stationed for months on ships of the British Fleet in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Xumbc.rs of Army observers already arc in Knsland ready for the new assignment.
More than ->0 Boeing and Consolidated bombers, capable of cruising 4000 or ")000 miles with heavy bomb load*, have boon tinned over to Britain under an arrangement announced in November by Oloneial fJenrge ('. Marshall. \\;\v Depart moiit ( hipf ot" Stall. Not all have boon delivered, however.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 91, 18 April 1941, Page 6
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