HAMMER BLOWS
AEROPLANE WARFARE MUSSOLINI'S CONCEPTION ITALIAN AIR DIVISIONS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. March 17. The Rome correspondent of The Times gives an illuminating passage from General Valle’s speech in the Chamber of Deputies justifying Signor Mussolini’s concept of mass attacks by aeroplanes dealing hammer blows on sectors where they could do most damage. Ordinary frontal attacks in war led only to stagnation and prolongation of the conflict. “The most logical way of humanising warfare,” said General Valle, “consists in making an effort to shorten the struggle, even at a very high cost. Therefore, Italy is forming homogeneous air units stronger than a group, adapting the air corps as a development of air divisions, each consisting of 100 machines, each carrying a ton of bombs, with 1250 miles ranges at a speed of 250 miles an hour.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 9
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