AIR OPERATIONS
LONDON’S BIG-SCALE TESTS TO COMMENCE TODAY. ATTACK AND DEFENCE. IBritish Official Wireless .] (Received 9 a.m.) RUGBY, July 20. Air defence exercises will begin on Monday evening with a raid by day bombers belonging to the “Southland.” forces on London, which will be defended by fighters of the “Northland” forces. The operations, in which over 370 aircraft, day and night bombers, and single-seater and two-seater lighters will take part, will be carried out in two main phases, the first lasting 14 hours, and the second commencing on Tuesday evening and continuing for over 60 hours, during which there will be one period of 48 hours’ continuous exercises.
A daylight raid on Monday will be followed by a night attack, in which the latest types of bombers will be used. All the main targets will be in the London area, since the exercises, as in former years, are concerned with the problem of the air defence of the capital. , The ground organisation of the defence, which will include anti-air-craft ’ batteries, searchlights and sound-detecting apparatus, will be strengthened by territorial units.
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Northern Advocate, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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