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...tests were made in a welter of polite doubt. Peter Masefield, No. 1 lay authority in Britain, wrote in the London Sunday Times that it would be a tragedy to squander American lives in U.S. heavy bombers over Germany-either by day or by night. The New York Times quoted him, repeated his suggestion that the U.S. craft-Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24s-be assigned to coastal duty. The New York Herald Tribune got the same sentiment from R.A.F. men. News services picked up the British contention, broadcast it far & wide...
Killed in Action. Lewis Crommelin Masefield, 32, only son of England's Poet Laureate John Masefield; "far from home in recent fighting." Himself a writer, Son Masefield was a member of a field ambulance unit...
...Masefield's conclusion is that Hitler is caught in a dilemma: the eastern offensive cannot be long delayed, but first the Führer must withdraw aircraft from France or Italy, thus giving the R.A.F. even greater supremacy and perhaps making a continental invasion possible...
...experts are inclined to accept Peter Masefield's figures, except those for France and Germany. The British, they say, exaggerate Hitler's air power in France, consequently overestimate the number of Nazi planes keeping vigil against Britain. U.S. information is that the bulk of Germany's western air fleet is still within the Reich, a position whence it could be hurled quickly against Russia, Britain or to the south, as occasion arises...
Sunday Timesman Masefield also pointed out the fact that "for every machine in the fighting line, there are about five more in reserve and in use for training and transport. Germany's total air strength is believed to be about 30,000 aircraft"; annual production 24,000. If true, this was a remotely encouraging figure. The U.S. alone expects to produce 60,000 planes...