BRITISH BOMBERS
GREAT MASS FLIGHT OVER FRANCE MIMIC BATTLE ABOVE CITIES. WATCHED BY SPELLBOUND CROWDS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) LONDON. July 25. A mass ILA.F. flight was made over France, in which at least 11(1 machines participated, the majority being Blenheim bombers. The planes dropped down from a great hejght to show their wings to the French cities and give anti-aircraft gun crews practice. The Hight coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of Louis Bleriot’s Channel flight. All the bomber battle formations safely returned at 1.15 p.m., having covered 850 miles.
Squadrons of French fighters co-op-erating with the anti-aircraft crews roared into the sky from military aerodromes throughout France to carry out interception manoeuvres. The bombers roared over Paris at half-hourly intervals. Thousands of people crowded the streets and watched the mimic battle. Spellbound crowds saw the planes harrying the bombers to the horizon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1939, Page 6
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148BRITISH BOMBERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1939, Page 6
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