GROWING APACE
AND STRIKING HEAVIER BLOWS R.A.F.’s TWENTY-FOURTH BIRTHDAY. SOME IMPRESSIVE FACTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 1. Today was the 24th anniversary of the R.A.F., which since its last birthday has achieved parity with the Luftwaffe. The R.A.F. is now receiving bigger bombers and.faster and more heavily armed fighters. Bombs weighing .nearly two tons are now included in the loads of the four-engined Stirlings and Halifaxes and still bigger bombs are coming. The Fighter Command has made over 50,000 sorties and shot down over 800 enemy fighters since the beginning of the war. R.A.F. and Dominion and Allied squadrons and British anti-aircraft batteries have accounted for nearly 9,000 German and Italian aircraft. Coastal Command squadrons have flown over 50,000,000 miles, convoying, on reconnaissance and attacking shipping. Between the R.A.F. and the Navy at least 5,250,000 tons of Axis shipping have been destroyed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1942, Page 3
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149GROWING APACE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1942, Page 3
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