BRITAIN’S “HURRY” BOMBER

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 52, 25 November 1941, Page 8

BRITAIN’S “HURRY” BOMBER

Hurricanes’ Feats IN USE ON SEVERAL FRONTS (British Official Wireless.) (Received November 24, 8 p.m.) RUGBY,- November 23. It was recently revealed that Hurricane bombers had been in use in the central Mediterranean. There are also some reports that these aircraft are in action in the Libya battle. They can attack with equal force strongholds of tanks, convoys, troop concentrations, and, if need arises, enemy fighters, writes a special correspondent who visited a fighter command station in southern England, whence these Hurricanes are flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force squadron.

They take off at every opportunity to attack with bombs and bullets a variety of targets in German-occupied France. The method of attack adopted by the R.A.F. at home for Hutricanes gives some indication of the surprise value of the assault on the Germans and Italians in Libya.

A pilot described how at sea level, sometimes flying, in the trough of the waves,’ they swept on to bomb objectives behind Cherbourg. "They could not see us coming,’ but no doubt they heard us,” he said. Over the desert wastes and the rugged coast of Libya Hurricanes can sweep on to convoy or panzer division so rapidly at almost ground level that they are gone and their bombs exploded before the enemy have time to take defensive action. Referring to today’s attacks on the north of France by the Fighter Command, the “Telegraph’s” aeronautical correspondent says that Hurricane bomb-carriers carry a 5001 b. bomb load and take only a few minutes to load. The round trip to France and back occupied less than an hour. The bombload does not appreciably reduce the speed and the firepower is not affected. The “Hurry” bombers are capable of fighting when loaded with bombs.