Accurate bombing could not be guaranteed from any height because of the human element, said Wing Commander G. S. Hodson, Officer Commanding the Wigram Air Training School, speaking to members of the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association at their monthly luncheon. It had been found, though, that bombing from 16,000 to 20,000 feet was sufficiently accurate to cause extensive damage, although there could be no certainty at such a height of hitting a particular object. He added, in reply to a question about the efficiency of the balloon barrage in London, that he understood the balloons rose to a height of about 20,000 feet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1939, Page 7
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