“THE REAL STUFF”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1943, Page 4

“THE REAL STUFF”

FULL=POWERED attack ON GERMANY PROMISED BY BRITISH AIR MINISTER. BIGGER AND BETTER BOMBERS ON THEIR WAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, November 24. “This is the real stuff; the Bomber Command's real power is now epertaing normally,” declared the Air Minister (Sir A, Sinclair), in an exclusive interview with Reuter.. He added: “It will be kept up, and the only limiting factor will be the weather. Our attacks against the heart cf Germany will continue to ’ be as heavy as at any time this year, indeed heavier. “These attacks will continue throughout the winter,” said the Air Marshal. “Bigger and better bombers than the Lancasters are on the way. Improvements of well-tried heavy and light bombers are now coming off the production lines here and in America. In addition, new types have actually left the drawing board and will soon be coming from the factories. They will fly faster, carry a greater weight of bombs, and be better defended. The losses we have so far suffered have not influenced our policy of strategic bombing of the German war machine. Aircraft coming from the factories in Britain, America and the Dominions, and air crews turned out by the Empire training scheme, are sufficient not only to supply wastage, but to provide for a steady expansion of the Bomber Command. The Germans have passed the peak of aircraft production, and British and American bombers will not let them regain it.”