WATCH FOR A SNEAK RAID!
Williams, Major Al
Watch For A Sneak Raid! By MAJOR AL WILLIAMS HAVE YOU noticed the way the "invasion of America" threat has silently and unobtrusively drifted into the discard? A common impression seems to prevail...
...The most I could learn was that in case of war, this ultra long-range bomber was for sea patrols in coordination with U-boats against warships and cargo shipping...
...They had a long-range bombing plane type in 1938 and a carefully planned program for its employment...
...It is too early, however, to start toward the clubhouse of complacency...
...With developments moving at the currently rapid pace, however, it seems to me to be decidedly unwise to assume that the war will end without some little dents being made along our coastline by enemy bombs...
...We have what it takes to make bombing attacks against the United States look silly...
...We evidently have some long-range, heavy aircraft capable of flying the Atlantic both ways, and it would be folly to believe that the Germans do not have similar bombers...
...The apparent purpose was to enable the Nazis to cover the length and breadth of Europe, with no hint at that time of the necessity for flying the Atlantic both ways...
...Because such bombers represent so vast a commitment of materials and hours of labor, we are safe in assuming that if the Nazis do possess such bombers, we would have to deal with only a few of them...
...They' have been found a thousand miles out in the Atlantic...
...A common impression seems to prevail that for some reason or other we are free of any bombing threat against the United States proper...
...Their air chiefs still possess suitable large 1 airports on the west coast of France for the take-off of long-range bombing planes capable of flying to the United States and return...
...I am certain the Nazis possess at least some very long-range aircraft...
...Unless there is some secret information concerning conditions inside Germany, I cannot understand why we are any freer of this threat today than we were a year or so ago.^The] Nazis are a desperate people...
Vol. 8 • January 1944 • No. 2
