German air activity over Britain last night was slight. An Air Ministry communique states: "Last night there was a small amount of enemy activity over eastern England. Bombs were dropped at a few places, A small number of casualties were caused and some damage was done,"
Three German aircraft were destroyed in combat and others damaged both in the air and on the ground during R.A.F, attacks on northern Fighter Squadron Congratulated London, June 29. Sif Archibald Sinclair, the Secretary of State for Air, has congratulated pilots of a squadron of Spitfires which in offensive sweeps over France in the last 10 days destroyed 18, Messerschmitts and probably nine others, it was learned here today. The squadron's losses were two.—Reuter, Atlantic City, June 29.
"We shall be one year nearer the year of victory when, with unlimited Supplies of war material, we Lan take complete control of the air and land swift-moving mechanized col-urnns to invade the extremities of the enforced German new order," declared Sir Ronald Campbell, new British Minister in the United States, addressing the Maryland Bar Association last night.
Sir Gerald added that "planning points to the autumn of 1942 as the time when this flood of supplies will begin to reach the full flood of its impetus. It is not false optimism to believe that 1943 will see Germany on the defensive."
The Minister declared that the race between American production and the Nazi war machine had already started, and added: "I cannot stress too strongly the vital need for an all-out effort in the field of production—ships, planes, food, shells, oil and steel. The Democracies must have speed and more speed"—Reuter.
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