TEST OF DEFENCE
COAST OF BRITAIN . POWERS OF AIR FORCE MOCK RAIDS PLANNED PERIOD OF 48 HOURS (British Official Wireless.) Rccd. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, August 4. Air exercises are to be held tomorrow and on Saturday over the greater part of East England and the Midlands when the air defences will be 'thoroughly 'tested. The exercises will be on a scale greater than ever before and some 900 aeroplanes arc to participate. In addition the first and second anti-aircraft divisions will be at their posts and some 7.000 gunners and sappers of the Territorial Army will take part. At night during 48 hours of mock assaults on the coast between the Thames and the Humber more searchlights will be in action than at any time since the Great War. Of the observer corps, 3,000 to 4,000 unpaid volunteers will be on duty continuously for the 43 hours.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19701, 5 August 1938, Page 6
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147TEST OF DEFENCE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19701, 5 August 1938, Page 6
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