•Page 124
•“In the First World War ‘cellar life’ had been a feature of the
adversities of Paris, which actually came under the
fire of specially built long-range guns in 1918, as well as aircraft
bombing. In the East End of London
air raids cause a tendency to panic in the latter part of 1917, and, whether
there was a raid or not, some 300,000 people
crowded each night into the underground railway stations and slept on the
platforms … There was little organized civil
defence beyond the reduction of lights.”
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•Page 161
•“The Germans, who were far ahead of any rival in the science of
lighter-than-air construction, refused to accept the
general belief that the future lay entirely with the heavier-than-air. Their
Zeppelins … were employed chiefly in night attacks
on England. On one occasion a single airship did a million pounds worth
of damage in a raid, but on the whole their success was mainly moral and
measured in terms of absenteeism in
factories and sensational drops in production of warlike material.”
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•Page 165
•“Early in the war the German Armies owed much in their
victories in Poland, Belgium, and France to
their dive-bombers. These aircraft acted in close support to the armour and
infantry … They often
put hostile artillery out of action, but generally by driving
the detachments from their guns. The successes were
won for the most part by moral rather than material effect. To troops unused to them, especially
the French division of low categories, they proved extremely unsettling.”