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Planes have also improved. The best types are mostly license-built from foreign designs: Heinkel 113 (385 m.p.h.), a heavy Junkers (155 m.p.h. with 2,200-lb bomb-load), the Nakajima I (Boeing-type bomber); and as fighters Devoitine 510 and Nakajima C-98 (352 m.p.h.). Japan has about 1,000 planes in China (400 fighters, 300 observation, 300 bombers) and about 5,800 altogether (2,350 fighters, 1,900 observation and transport, 1,550 bombers). About 2,100 military pilots and 1,000 civilian pilots are trained every year. Contrary to the old canard about Japanese pilots not being...
...danger of invasion or massed attacks from the air is past. I must warn you against relapsing into any mood of complacency. The future may well hold for us far greater ordeals than any through which we have yet passed. Only a small fraction of the Germans' heavy bomber force has yet been, engaged...
Simultaneously with this elaborately staged first attack on London, the Luftwaffe launched mass attacks on Birmingham and Rochester, in which their fast-climbing, heavily armed bomber, the Dormer 215, played an important part. On Aug. 18 they flew up the Thames Estuary and mass-attacked London again. One vital thing in danger was the city's water supply. Thus, day after day, without intermission, except for an occasional half day of bad weather, the world's No. 1 air force went to the attack...
...training, factories planned, designs developed. These they standardized and limited to a few models for mass production by four main companies-Junkers, Dornier, Heinkel, Bayrische Flugzeugwerke (Messerschmitt). Standardization and mass production are Erhard Milch's passions, right down to his fliers' toothbrushes. The Junkers 87 dive bomber is his special pet. Udet got the idea for it from the U. S. Navy...
...Executive Council Sir Henry Somer Gullett and Chief of the Australian General Staff Lieut. General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White. The party was so large that the Air Minister could not take them in his favorite little Percival plane. Instead he ordered out a big Lockheed Hudson bomber of the Royal Australian Air Force...