is equally difficult for those who suffer under it and An aerial offensive is by nature episodic, and it
for the lay public of the attacking power to make continuous and coherent sense of the daily news of bombing raids on this or that military objective, says the "Manchester Guardian." In this most highly mobile of all forms of warfare there can be no slowly developing battle-front, definable frum day to day by a line on a map; successive operations may seem to be both geographically and tactically unrelated until they are surveyed over a considerable period, Only then can a development of policy be seen in the accumulation of places bombed and rumpers of attacks.
So it is with the R.A.F's attacks on Germany and German-occupied territory. In the month before the fall of France their object was obvious and, in the military sense, immediate—to upset supplies' for the German advance; since then their aim has been twofold—the immediate reduction of the enemy's striking power and the ultimate weakening of his war effort and the means of exerting it, It is significant of the RA.F.'s growing strength that while the threat of. invasion was at fits height in September and our furious assault on the Channel ports was going on we were still able to continue our bombardment of German factories, railways, and military stores and to extend the field of operations east-wards, to Berlin and beyond, The immediate threat of invasion passed; the Channel ports are still being regularly attacked, but since the end of September the "long-term" bombing of objectives in Germany itself has been the outstanding feature of our operations.
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