“WILL SWEEP SKIES”
NEW TYPHOON FIGHTERS NEW YORK, Aug. 9. “Britain’s new Typhoon fighters will sweep the skies clear and revolutionise aerial fighting,” said Mr. Noel Monks, aviation correspondent of the Daily Mail, London, on his arrival in New York to investigate United States air strength. Britain’s air offensive against Germany will really begin about September 1,” he said. “The Typhoons are Britain’s supreme aerial achievement.” The Nazis would be forced to invent a new word for “blitz” when the offensive began, Mr. Monks said, because the increase in British air strength had been “fantastic”. “One aerodrome, from which one Spitfire rose to meet the invaders last year, now has 500 fighters ready to accompany bombers against Germany,” he added.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20639, 20 August 1941, Page 9
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