News of the heavy Royal Air Force raid on Berlin on Saturday is satisfying in many ways, First of all it provides clear proof that Mr. Winston Churchill's promise to give the Germans a taste of similar raids to those which were carried out by the Nazis over Britain, was no idle boast that could not be fulfilled, Secondly. it indicates that the bomber strength of the Royal Air Force is bigger than ever before and that even heavier raids on Berlin and other vital -German centres may be expected with the advent of longer hours of darkness over the European continent In the third place Saturday's raid gives the German people plenty to
attack carried out aga e German. cap-think about, It was io, sine heaviest ital amd to' Berliners. doped with prewar boasting that not one enemy bomb would ever fall on Berlin, it must have come as a nasty shock to see and hear the ear-splitting detonations as some of Britain's super bombs (the Germans have nothing to compare with them) laid in waste vast and vital areas of the Nazi metropolis, It gave the German people more than enough proof that, as the war continues, it is Germany who is getting weaker and not Britain, A raid such as that on Saturday could not have been carried out in the early stages of the present war. It could not have been carried out last year—Britain's air force was still nu-medically inferior to the Luftwaffe, Today, however. there is a different story to tell Britain, if she has not already gained her object of attaining air superiority, has at least. gained equality in numbers and a definite superiority in men and machines, This is borne out by the fact that at the same time that Berlin was receiving a terrible drubbing from some of Britain's latest and heaviest bombers, Kiel and Hamburg. already badly battered by previous Royal Air Force raids. were experiencing attacks that were equally as heavy as the raid on-Berlin, Thus It-Col, Moore Brabazon's words: "It may not be many months before raids like those on London will be mere child's play compared to the raids we shall make on Berlin," which were spoken on July 10. are being carried out to the letter by a Royal Air Force that has become the most formidable attacking force the world has yet seen—a force that possesses the finest machines that Britain and the United States can turn out and a force that possesses the finest pilots in the world
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