FACTOR IN VICTORY
AIR INVASION OF EUROPE DECISIVE INSTRUMENT Johannesburg. Aug. 10. ‘Many people think the Continent of Europe must be invaded, and I think invasion has already begun by air ” said the Premier. Field-Marshai Smuts. “I am not sure that invasion by land forces will be necessary. I have no doubt that aviation will be a decisive instrument in achieving victory.” He stated that South Africa began the war with one air squadron and now had 15. The Air Force now numbers at least 25,000 men and women, und it aims to have 50,000. —U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 188, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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