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1942
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FLIGHT AUGUST 2OTH. 1942 a defence by bombers, harrying the Japanese positions in Rabaul and New Guinea, and by that means checking the advance of the enemy until the American Forces were ready to undertake their invasion of the Solomons. Of course, offence and defence are terms whose mean ings often overlap, and we can even recall a case in which a simple-minded pacifist at a meeting of the League of Nations Union enquired how a fighter could be con sidered a weapon of defence, as it attacked bombers with its machine guns. The distinction between strategic defence and tactical offence was more than he could grasp. Sir Charles Portal's Words T HE Chief of the Air Staff has written a striking article in the Chicago Flying, declaring that the time is not far off when the British and American bomber squadrons in this country will be able to destroy the industry and power of Germany at a rate which out strips repair. He dealt also with the effect on the civil population of Germany, but added that our bombs are attacking • the factories and workshops which are con structing tanks, lorries, aircraft and submarines, on which the enemy's striking power is founded. The coming of large sections of the American Army Air Force to this country naturally makes a great differ ence to the power of the native air arm, which was getting somewhat stretched by the demands of the Battle of the Atlantic, the Middle East, the Far East, and Russia. CONTENTS The Outlook - War in the Air - Here and There - - - - Engine Power - - - - Behind the Lines - - - — The B.M.W. 801A - Aircraft Characteristics - , Fortress Squadron - - - - Dornier Diving Brakes - - - In Parliament - - Estimating Take-off Weight—II North American Mustang - Correspondence - - - Service Aviation - - - - - - - - - - 202 - - - - - -' "~" 191 193 196 '97 200 201 a and b 203 205 206 207 209 212 213 * It was very appropriate, just after the publication of this article by the Chief of the Air Staff, that General Spaatz, who commands the American Army Air Force in Britain, should have given an interview to the Britgh Press, which was attended by Air Marshal PecV%n behalf of the Air Staff. American fighter squadrons use Spitfires, because that gets them to grips witn the enem - most quickly, but the Americans are sticking to the use of theif own bombers, with which they are well satisfied. However, those bombers will take British bombs. More bombers are what this country needs, so the Americans bring their own, besides supplying others to R.A.F. squadrons. IN BRITAIN NOW: Ground crews of the U.S. Army Air Forces working on a Boeing Fortress at one of the air stations taken over by the Americans. The tanker in the background is on loan from the Royal Air Force. A record of a visit to one of these stations appears on pages 202 and 204.
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