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...British Empire, fresh from ten weeks with the War Cabinet in London, the Prime Minister stepped out of the Clipper to be greeted by Australian Minister Richard Casey. Then, with no kowtowing to supposed U.S. sensibilities, he let fly with a statement on war aims, flew in a camouflaged bomber to Ottawa, returned to Washington to talk with Secretary Hull, win over the correspondents, have an hour-long bedside conference with the President, in which they "circumnavigated the globe...
Last week the President demanded a huge increase in this bomber program. He gave no precise figures - talk in Washing ton was of 500 a month - for the Government had just waked up to the fact that it had not planned for enough big bombers...
Meanwhile George VI's Bomber Command, under aggressive Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, has been expanding its program all along, until one night last week it was reported that over 300 planes had been sent out to enemy territory-almost as many as the Germans were using over Britain. But it still remained to be seen whether the R.A.F. would be able to make night mass raids almost as expensive as day raids, and perhaps too expensive. If they did, it was likely that the Germans might perfect a similar technique, and the war in the air might become...
Last week a new dive-bomber for Britain appeared: the Vultee Vengeance. Its military load, range, speed were secrets. Unofficial claims indicated that it can carry upwards of a ton of bombs, that it has a range of 1,000 miles or more, a diving speed of better than 300 m.p.h. Its power plant is an air-cooled, radial Wright engine (the 1,700-h.p. Cyclone...
...where they had been established under the treaty for years: Habbania, on the west bank of the Euphrates, 65 miles from Bagdad, a huge airdrome with cantonments for about 5,000 men, but equipped only with small guns and some 50 antique biplanes; and Shaibah, near Basra, basing a bomber squadron and an armored-car section...