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Show British Gaining Control of Air Expert From Abroad Tell Of Winter Plans to Bomb Berlin All Night NEW YORK. -With growing air power England has begun to turn the tables on Germany and plans to bomb Berlin in night-long raids next winter as the LuftwafTe hammered ham-mered British cities last winter, aviation experts arriving from Europe Eu-rope on the AUantic Clipper said at LaGuardia Field. Four Britons, here to confer with the council on foreign relations, under un-der aegis of the Rockefeller Foundation, Founda-tion, also were among 21 passengers from Lisbon. One of the conferees, William Courtneay, aero correspondent for the Allied Newspapers in England, said the Royal Air force "will damage dam-age Berlin this winter" with long-range long-range bombers streaming over Uie German capital at two-minute Intervals Inter-vals throughout the night. "The American Flying Fortress bombers will make Uils possible," he said. "Already they have shown that they can fly to Berlin and back In the flve-and-three-quarter-hour darkness of a summer night." Tells of Winter Plans. For winter, he went on, Uie R.A.F. will be able to dispatch bombers at 4 p. m. for their Berlin objective, with others following one by one. "The R.A.F. was loathe to attack cities until the Germans did it to us," Mr. Courtenay asserted. "Aside from Uie intangible of effects on morale, bombing of cities damages dam-ages their utilities. This may stop war-plant production in a wide area for several months." Similar raids "to level cities" in Germany have been begun "in recent re-cent weeks," he said and gave Aachen and Cologne as examples. He had high praise for "the new Sperry bomb sight," which he said enabled flying fortresses to drop "1,000 and 2,000 pound bombs" from 37,000 feet, or seven miles, and to hit a ship from 31,000 feet altitude. Praise British Bombers. John J. Bergen, Investment banker bank-er and director of both the Grumman Grum-man Aircraft company and the United Aircraft Products company, accompanied by Leon A. SwirbuL. Grumman vice president and general gen-eral manager, also reported that the R.A.F. was daily becoming more formidable. "Both the Lancaster and Stirling, new British faur-cngine bombers, are as good as anything we can turn out Including Uie Boeing fly lug fortress and the E 24 consolidated consolidat-ed liberator," he said. "I am bullish as hell Uiat England Is going to win Uiis war," he re-' re-' marked. |