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...rest of the mob. Someone-and why not TIME? -should point out that we are neither England nor Norway, that even if the Atlantic has been flown over it is still a barrier to conquest, that Sims said he would be happy to defend our shores with a fleet half the size of any attacker, that every single expert knows Japan neither can nor will attack...
...British expedition took Washington, fought in Louisiana. In 1863 a French Army entered Mexico City, set up an empire. In 1917-18 a U. S. Army crossed the Atlantic in the opposite direction. The only barrier there has ever been in the Atlantic has been a fleet that could control the ocean (and nowadays an adequate air force...
...crack pilots, to make the first actual attempt on great sprawling London. This armada split, half aiming at the London docks and Woolwich Arsenal on the east, the other half aiming at munitions stores on the city's southwestern edge. They hit the suburbs of Tilbury, North-fleet, Enfield, Barking, Purfleet, killed and maimed an unannounced number of civilians, did small military damage. Captive balloons and a terrific anti-aircraft barrage walled them away from London's heart. German observers in reconnaissance planes gave the world a running radio ac count of this exploit. They exaggerated enormously. Excerpts...
When Erhard Milch was made a Marshal last month, absent from the ceremonies were two of his closest colleagues, who were made Marshals also. These were Albert Kesselring and Hugo Sperrle. They were all busy in the newly occupied areas, getting ready their air fleets for the grand attack on Great Britain. Like Milch, Kesselring was an artillery officer in the last war, switching to the air in 1933. He helped plan the Poland offensive and directed Air Fleet No. 1 in it. A tall, well-built, happy-go-lucky Bavarian, he is probably the Luftwaffe's most popular...
...Nazis gained mastery of the air they could demolish the bases from which the British Fleet operates in the Channel and the North Sea; they could make those narrow seas untenable for the trawlers which lay and sweep mines; they could sink British destroyers (whose vulnerability has already been proved) which tried to counterattack with their own torpedo boats; they could keep British convoys out of the Channel; they could destroy the western port facilities through which Britain receives the goods necessary to her life and defense. Under these conditions the British Fleet might remain unconquered, the British merchant marine...