kev35, No.5: WSC, 8/7/40: (Britain’s traditional preferred means of waging War – visiting mass destruction upon the enemy’s land by Naval) “blockade is broken (but) there is one thing that will bring (Hitler) down and that is an absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from (UK) upon the Nazi homeland. We must be able to overwhelm them by this means without which I do not see a way through.” WW2/II,Cassell,1949,P567; J.Terraine,The Right of the Line, P260: WSC,Sept.40: “Fighters are our salvation (but) Bombers alone provide the means of victory”. In Nov.1918 Bloody Paralysers, 400 HP(Harland) 0/400, more en route from US Standard, and imminent heavy HP V/1500, Vickers Vimy and more, merely as a fleet-in-being had contributed to victory. WSC and others believed that the Central Powers had folded before bombardment rendered Society ungovernable.

New Minister of Aircraft Production Beaverbrook, May,1940, put temporary priority on output of Hurri/Spit/Blenheim/Wellington/Hampden (A.Furse, Wilfrid Freeman, Spellmount, 2000,P.136); from end Sept.’40 the industrial programme began by which through 1942-5 Supervisories and their shadows built a £50,000 bomber every 100 mins. 2/3/44 SecState for War: the “RAF programme is already employing more than the Army(’s) I dare say that there are as many engaged in making heavy bombers as on the whole Army programme”. 7% of UK war effort {12% ’44/5 “measured (as) production and combat man-hours” R.Overy,Why the Allies Won,P128 – truly more, as the King’s Forces took even more (2,445) US-built B-24 than Stirling (2,369)}.