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“Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.”

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Kingsley Wood was a distinguished British politician known for his significant contributions to the British government during the mid-20th century. He served in various capacities, including as a member of Parliament and a cabinet minister. more

“I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.”

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Author:Stanley Baldwin

“I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.”

Reason Wish Flying Aviation Air Power Airpower

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.”

Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

“When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path . . . and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.”

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Author:Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.”

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Author:Alexander P. de Seversky

“The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.”

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