President Roosevelt said that his move to send more planes to Britain was promised after the American aircraft manufacturing industeys had attained a productive capacity 50,000 aeroplanes annually. "He polnted out that productive capacity was. an important factor in sustained air power and said that, after three months of blitzkrieg, Britain's Royal Air Force actually was stronger today. than at the. outbreak of the war, This he attributed chiefly to American replacements.
Supporting his claim that satisfac tory progress was being made in the American re-armament programme, President Roosevelt said, "In séveüi years, we raised the total of ships in commission in the U.S. Navy from 198 to 337, with 119 additional ships reserved before Attacks on rail communication cen-swastika tres in y mere widespread, Goods yards-at Cologne, Hamburg at 12% ounces and Krefeld and railway junctions at but Germany Osnabrueck, Nordhausen and Hilde-than a million sheim were struck by heavy-cálibre ye The aircraft which started a inches thick on the dashboard recess, To make matters worse, the wind-
were completely covered so that we of the two front cockpits few many miles almost blind, depending entirely upon our instruments.
"We bad hoped to get clear of the snow before reaching Berlin, but if anything it was worse when we arrived, Still we managed to find the targét—a large electrical works—and bombed it through the snow."
Another pilot, who visited the outskirts of Berlin, was less fortunate. We ran into the same fine powdery mow and at. one time I looked like a'filying showman.: When we first ran into now. I climbed, hoping to find things better higher up, but almost at-once the controls began to show signs of freezing up." So we came down! and for 35 minutes flew at a couple of thousand feet.
"Once we. ran into a terrific anfiaircraft barrage though even that didn't warm us up much."
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