THREAT BY AIR
TO SEA COMMUNICATIONS WITH AMERICA GERMANS USING BIG BOMBERS AND FLYING-BOATS. NEED OF LONG RANGE FIGHTERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 18. Aviation experts read into the blockade that Germany is Irving to establish west of the Irish coast an aerial threat to Britain’s increasingly important sea communications with America, from whom she is beginning to draw enormous war supplies.
Operating from bases on the French Atlantic coast, the Germans hope to nullify much of this American help by the energetic use of big bombers and a new type of long-range flying-boat.
Aviation authorities contend that what Britain needs is a great number of long-range fighters to serve the dual purpose of escorting daylight bombing attacks on Germany and the interception off Ireland of the German bombers. The type of aircraft urgently needed is fighters with a top speed of 400 miles an hour and a cruising range of at least 2000 miles. They must be heavily armed with cannon and machine-guns.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1940, Page 5
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165THREAT BY AIR Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1940, Page 5
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