LONDON’S DEFENCES.
EXERCISES IN THE AIR. fßritish Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 7. Great interest is being taken in the air defence exercises which will take place at the beginning of next week and in the course of which for two continuous periods of 15 hours a series of air raids against selected targets on the outskirts of London will be made by 15 squadrons of light and medium bombers and three squadrons of heavy bombers—a total of 176 aircraft. The defence will be carried out by 19 fighter squadrons and by the antiaircraft guns and searchlights of the first anti-aircraft division of the territorial army, assisted by the observer corps. The total aircraft available for the defence will be 222. The exercises are designed particularly to test the ground organisation. 15-HOUR ATTACK. (British Official Wireless.) Received August 10, 11.55 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 9. Four hundred aircraft are engaged in air defence exercises over London, which began at 6 p.m. to-day and continued for 15 hours. They will be repeated to-morrow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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170LONDON’S DEFENCES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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