AIR BOMBING
EFFECTIVENESS STRESSED IN ITALY WARS WON BY AVIATION. INHABITED AREAS REDUCED TO HEAP OF RUINS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ROME. May 31. Stressing the effectiveness of air bombing, the Under-Secretary of State for Air, Signor Valle, introducing the air estimates in the Senate today, referred to the lessons of “two wars which our aviation recently won.” He said that if Valencia, Barcelona and the centre of Madrid were still intact it was only because General Franco wished to spare them. However, the harbour quarters of Barcelona and Valencia today showed how an inhabited area could be reduced to a heap of ruins where it was impossible -for life of any kind to exist. Air action against ships had been equally effective, and 162 vessels had been sunk or damaged in the harbours of eastern Spain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1939, Page 7
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