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Hastening to explain the raids in view of Winston Churchill's statement about Germany's "serious shortage" in the air (see p. 25), the Air Ministry assured correspondents that only 30 to 40 planes had come over to bomb. At least three bombers were downed, a theoretical 10% of the striking force, which would make the raids unprofitable. Whether the Luftwaffe was satisfied with this test of strength, or whether it had merely switched four or five bomber squadrons from the Eastern Front to make the attacks, the raids were not repeated...
...question, shucked his recently acquired Carlton Grill manners to argue a blistering affirmative: more & more expert workers must be withdrawn from industry if the high operating efficiency of British aircraft and mechanized vehicles is to be maintained. Bawled Bevin: "Am I entitled to send a man up in a bomber without providing a journeyman to test the bomber and see that it is safe? No! It shall not be on my conscience that I risked a single airman's life...
...have given their planes such lively names as Hurricane and Spitfire, the Navy last week gave names to its planes. Abandoned (except for official correspondence) was the Navy's peculiar code of airplane designations: SO3C (for Scout Observation plane, type 3, made by Curtiss), PB2Y (for Patrol Bomber, type 2, made by Consolidated), etc. The new lexicon...
Buccaneer for the Brewster SB2A scout bomber...
Five minutes later a single German bomber appeared, circled low over the town, dropped six heavy bombs on the railroad station, and left. After another five minutes a second bomber came and pounded the center of town. Fifteen minutes passed in quiet, then three Junkers 52s arrived 10 continue the destruction and from then on the bombing grew in intensity. Seven thousand inhabitants and three thousand refugees were first stampeded by hand grenades and heavy bombs, driven below the ground by machinegun strafing, and then buried beneath the houses that were wrecked and burned by incendiary bombs. Many were killed...