TANKS & BOMBERS
MR CHURCHILL DEFENDS PAST POLICY OPINION OF AIR MARSHALS. CONSTRUCTION OF TRANSPORT PLANES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) RUGBY, July 2. Discussing the difficulties of production and design of tanks, in the concluding stages of his speech in the House of Commons, Mr Churchill said it was quite wrong to say the Matilda cruiser and Valentine tanks were useless. They had done great service and were still of real value, A type, lighter and faster than the Churchill tank,
would be put into production at the earliest moment. Two had been sent co Egypt, to be desert tested, but none had been used against the enemy. Mr Churchill said that most of the air marshals thought little of divebombers. i In any case we had to build fighters to protect Britain .against the blitz. He announced that thousands, of transport planes had been built, at the expense of bomber construction, although bombers were helping to win the war, because German citizens could not take it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1942, Page 4
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