"Next, the scale of effort required of the Germans in an attack would have to be multiplied many times over what was necessary in Crete and it might be this would be beyond the capacity of their resources for their schemes, "Everything however will be done to meet an air borne and seaborne attack launched upon a vast scale and maintained with a total disregard of losses, We shall not be lulled by those two arguments into any undue of security.
n attack by parachute troops and ers may be likened to an attack by incendiary bombs, which, if not quickly extinguished one by one, lead not only to serious fires but fo an enormous conflagration, "We are making many improvements in the defence of our airfields and in the mobility of forces which will be employed upon that and other tasks, Nothing will be stinted and not a moment will be lost,
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