A modern fighter plane, such as a Spitfire, with eight Vickers mach-ine-guns costing £2OO apiece is more expensive to keep in action than a big field gun. The bullets used cost ciily about a penny each, but they aie used up at the rate of more than ten thousand a minute!
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21215, 11 September 1940, Page 10
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