AIR ATTACK ON NEW YORK
131 MACHINES TAKE PART
TEST OF CITY’S VULNERABILITY.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, May 9.
New York was the target' to-day for 131 bombing ami fighting planes when iho United States navy engaged in a theoretical raid to reveal hovv vulnerable New York is from the air. The huge triple-engined' Martian bombers were each capable or bearing tons of high explosives. Lesser bombing planes and battle planes for the protection of the big ones, and' swift pursuit planes' to drive' off the attacking enemy jhachifies'" pu'rti/'ipaled over Times Square. Then the air armada swept southward, carrying out theoretical attacks elsewhere on its way to its berths on board the aeroplane carriers Lexington, Langley and Saratoga at ' Hampton Roads, Virgina. ‘ - •
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1930, Page 6
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