FLOWN TO BRITAIN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20864, 17 August 1942, Page 3

FLOWN TO BRITAIN

U.S. BOMBING PLANES PLANS FOrToINT RAIDS BERLIN’S PREPARATIONS (9.30) LONDON, Aug. 16. American army planes were flowing to Britain in great numbers, said Lieutenant-General Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Corps, at a Press conference. Full-scale participation in Royal Air Force raids on Germany was just a question of getting the planes over to England and time to build up American strength. Lieutenant-General Arnold revealed that 34 negro pilots had completed their training and 73 others were engaged in training for the army’s first all-negro air squadron. The squadron was an experiment. When the training was completed, the army authorities would decide whether to create additional negro squadrons. The Gestapo head, Herr Himmler, in his capacity as chief of the air raid precautions services, is intensively preparing Berlin for heavy raids, says The Times correspondent on the German frontier. Himmler’s SS guards are displacing .the Berlin civil police from air raid precautions work and also displacing wardens of blocks and even concierges of individual houses. Anti-air raid towers are being erected and the whole system of anti-aircraft gun nests is being changed, thus making obsolete the Royal Air Force’s information. Wooden barracks are being built on vacant land near Berlin so that those bombed out of their homes can be quickly accommodated. Royal Air Force raids are estimated to have rendered 1,000,000 Germans homeless.