IN THE R.A.F ALSO
Leadership Review LONDON, March 4. An Air Council instruction which has just been issued to all the commands orders a general review of the military efficiency and alertness of officers at home and abroad to ensure that they possess the quality essential for the strain and speed of present-day warfare. R.A.F. OPERATIONS Millions of Germans Kept Occupied (Received March 6, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 5. ’The R.A.F. bombers operating from England tie down 3,000,000 Germans, said an R.A.F. officer, Group Captain Helmore, in ti broadcast. A million skilled men who might be lighting Russia are employed with the anti-aircraft defences, searchlights and balloons and probablv a further 2,000,000 were diverted from other war efforts to A.R.P. and also for the fire-fighting services, observer corps, night fighters and radio location.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 138, 7 March 1942, Page 7
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