MOSTLY BOMBERS
New Machines For R.A.F. “Dominion” Special Service. —By Air Mail. London, February 27. Aip Ministry experts building up a super R.A.F. for, the defence of Britain are stipulating that 75 per cent, of the new squadrons shall be composed of bombers. It has been found, after years of manoeuvres, that the fast air bomber cannot bo stopped. Neither degending aeroplanes, guns, searchlights, nor even the famous “balloon barrage” will do more than hamper raiding squadrons by inflicting occasional casualties.
British pilots home from fighting for the Madrid Government tell of the deadly twin-gunned Soviet aeroplanes doing 250 m.p.h. and shooting 3600 bullets or tiny shells a minute.
Franco's German and Italian pilots fear the Soviet airmen. Yet even with Soviet aid Madrid has been bombed whenever Franco chose to do so.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 11
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