"The enemy is, of course, far more numerous than we are, but our new production already, I am advised. exceeds his largely, and American production is only just beginning to flow in. It is a fact, as I see from my daily returns, that our bomber and fighter strength is now, after all this fighting, larger than it has ever been (cheers).
"We hope and believe that we shall be able to continue the air struggle indefinitely as long as the enemy pleases and the longer it continues the more rapid will be our approach first towards parity and then towards superiority in the air, on which, in a large measure, the decision of the war depends."
Mr. Churchill paid a tribute to RAF. fighter pilots, but asked his audience not to forget the work of bomber squadrons night after night, month after month, and added: are able to verify the results of the bombing of military targets in Germany not only by reports which reach us through many sources, but also by photography. I have no hesitation in saying that this process of bombing military industries, communications, German air bases and storage depots, which process will continue upon an ever-increasing scale until the end of the war, or may in another year tain dimensions hitherto undreamed of, affords one of the most certain, if not the shortest, of all roads of victory.
"Even if Nazi legions stood triumphant on the Black Sea or indeed upon the Caspian, even if Hitler was at the gates of India, it would profit him nothing if at the same time the entire economic and scientific apparatüs of German war power lay shattered and pulverized at home.
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