BRITAIN'S AERIAL IMMUNITY
Mr Winston Churchill, speaking a week or two ago at a national service meeting at South Woodford, Essex, declared that 99 out of every 100 square miles in Britain would be practically immune from air attack. “ Great expanses of the country will be as safe in war time from the air as they are now from the depredations of the motor .bicycle,” he said. “ But a very different story presents itself in the target areas—areas which can be attacked at night under the pretext of aiming at vital centres and yet inflict a cruel toll upon the civil population.” The British Air Force had reached such a condition of strength and efficiency that it would bo “ very dangerous, very costly for an enemy Power to make attacks by day in the air. A loss of one in five of those aeroplanes which came would very soon bring anv regular series of daylight attacks to an end.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 3
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159BRITAIN'S AERIAL IMMUNITY Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 3
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