DEFENSIVE GEOGRAPHY
GERMAN FLYERS' HANDICAP [From Our London Correspondent.! August 22. A Canadian airman has been commenting on the difficulties of English geography from the air, and says that it took him many weeks before he could find his way about with comparative ease from heights above 3,000 ft. The absence of great rivers and hills and lakes is the chief handicap. Our: rivers provide only recognisable estuaries and then disappear. Our hills are antheaps, and lakes of any size are to be found only in the north. This, oB course, is also the handicap of the Germans, and in part accounts for the fantastic claims of places visited and bombed. On the other hand, throughout Germany there are numerous landmarks, rivers, hills, forests, and lakes, which stand out almost as regularly and as clearly as milestones used to d» on the roadides. But, above all, where our airmen, have it is in expert navigation. In this the German airmen* compared with them, are only learners,and not very capable at that.
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Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 6
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171DEFENSIVE GEOGRAPHY Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 6
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