SPEED IN WAR
USE OF AEROPLANES THE POLISH CAMPAIGN LONDON, Sept. 27. The speed of German military methods, in keeping with their policy of a lightning war, was demonstrated in detail in the Polish campaign. The Germans extensively used aeroplane transport in Poland because of the non-existence of roads, or because of the impassable condition of those that did exist. Junker transport planes from Breslau were fed from petrol dumps for the maintenance of the German spearhead of fast tanks and armoured cars, by dropping barr.el-like containers by parachute. Aeroplanes systematically evacuated the badly wounded to specialising centres—one group to a hospital for stomach wounds, another to a hospital for amputations, and so on.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20061, 6 October 1939, Page 12
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