MILLIONS OF GERMANS
TIED DOWN BY BRITISH AIR ATTACKS.' INCLUDING LARGE NUMBERS OF SKILLED MEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 5. The R.A.F. bombers operating from England tie down 3,000,000 Germans, said an R.A.F. officer, Group Captain Helmore, in a broadcast. A million skilled men who might be fighting Russia are employed with the antiaircraft defences, searchlights and balloons and probably a further 2,000,000 were diverted from other war efforts to A.R.P. and also for the fire-fighting services, observer corps, night fighters and radio location.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1942, Page 3
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