BRITISH BOMBERS
ACCOMMODATION PROBLEM
LONDON, July 4,
Allied losses on even the most expensive air raid were only a fraction1 of the daily output from factories making planes, says the aviation writer of the "Sunday Express." The problem of the replacement of aircraft and crews was solved long ago.
"The only problem now facing both the Air Council and the Ministery of Aircraft Production," he says, "is the enviable one of where to keep the ever-growing surplus of home-built: bombers. They are literally overcrowding the R.A.F. maintenance units, and also, to a lesser degree, the dispersal points on the R.A.F. operational stations."
The spokesman for the Ministry of Aircraft Production said that British aircraft and aero engines were being manufactured in sufficient quantities and categories not only to meet every operational training requirement of the R.A.F., but to replace in full all estimated losses and leave a wide margin for a greatly-increased scale of attack. The-correspondent added that Britain's aircraft output already exceeds Germany's and Italy's and may soon exceed that of the entire Axis.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1943, Page 5
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