ROYAL AIR FORCE
TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT BEST IN WORLD LONDON, March 29. Paying a tribute to the R.A.F. in the first broadcast commemorating the forthcoming twenty-fifth birthday of the R.A.F., the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, recalled that between the wars the Marshal of the R.A.F... Lord Trenchard, and the Air Staff concentrated on high quality, however small the quantity—its training, aircraft, equipment, and organisation were the best in the world. Now, he added. British and dominion airmen, with superb British aircraft equipment—Spitfires, Mosquitoes, Typhoons, Lancasters, Halifaxes, _ and Sunderlands —had established their ascendancy over Axis airmen. The Bomber Command's shattering assault on Berlin on Saturday had dropped double the weight of bombs the Luftwaffe had ever dropped on London, which was nearly 450 tons on the night of April 16, 1941.
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Evening Star, Issue 24466, 30 March 1943, Page 3
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