The Archive · 1938

Surprisingly Small Loss

"Even when planes have been caught on the field by high altitude bombers the damage has been surprisingly low, due mainly to inaccurate bombing.

"The theory that a flying fortress' or mutually protective formulations of bombing planes removes the necessity for protective fighters has derely been proved wrong in China, as I believe it has been in Spain. At the outset of aerial operations the Japanese sent large missions of heavy bombers from Taiwan against Nanking, Hangchow, Nanchang, etc.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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