AIR DEFENCE TESTS
1000 BRITISH PLANES
LONDON, July 20
For weeks Londoners have seen the sky paraded every night by aeroplanes, sometimes with searchlights illuminating them, in defence tests. It is announced that approximately 1000 warplanes will take part in manoeuvres over Southern England and the Midlands for three days, beginning on August 5. This is the greatest number of machines that has ever taken part in manoeuvres. The main objects will be to test air and ground dsfences against attack "from territory situated eastward of this area."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19698, 2 August 1938, Page 5
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88AIR DEFENCE TESTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19698, 2 August 1938, Page 5
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