TESTS TO BE HELD.
BERIES OF AIR RAIDS. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 8. Great Interest Is being taken in the air defence exercises which will take place on the first three days of this week. For two continuous periods of 15 hours a series of air raids against selected targets on the outskirts of London will be made by 15 squadrons of light and medium bombers, and three squadrons of heavy ibombers, a total of 176 aircraft. The defenco will be carried out by 19 fighter squadrons and by antiAlrcraft guns and searchlights of the First Anti-Aircraft Division of the Territorial Army, assisted by observer corps. The total aircraft available for the defence will be 222. The exercises are designed particularly to test the ground organisation.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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126TESTS TO BE HELD. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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