AMERICAN AIR FORCE
PERSHING ON FUTURE NEEDS.
WASHINGTON, 28th January.
General Pershing, writing in the "Aeronautical Digest" magazine, declares that recent bombing experiments proved conclusively that aircraft bombs, which can be dropped with surprising accuracy, would sink any navy vessel designed and built at the present time. The air forces of the future will be most effective against attacking a fleet of hostile transports. He pointed out that .the Army and Navy Departments were within the limits of their appropriations in concentrating on the development of the air forces, but the American Air Force must be one adequate to be concentrated within easy reach of any point threatened by an enemy,;. and superior to that which could accompany any battle fleet which was likely to approach this point. He also stressed the great need to assure the existence of industrial establishments ready for an enormous increase in building aircraft in war time. He therefore urged the encouragement of the commercial development of aircraft.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 25, 30 January 1923, Page 7
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