Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-04 | Page 9 | Berlin to Have Been Raided

BERLIN TO HAVE Forty Fliers Had Been Preparing Prepar-ing for Weeks to Do the Bombing. NEW YORK, Doc. 4 Berlin was to have been bombed by a squadron of eight to twelve super-Handley-Paige and de l-Invlland-10 airplanes on the night of November 11, the date of the signing of tho armistice, according to a number of American aviators who returned today on tho transport Lapland. Lap-land. Forty fliers of tho new and powerful aircraft had been preparing for weoks at Ford Junction, Sussex, on tho English Eng-lish channel, to attack tho German capital. Eighteen of the aviators came home today and the remainder are still in England. All of them had been trained in this country for tho particular purpose of attacking interior German cities. Each man had received. It was said, 300 hours experience as night fliers at Ellington field in Texas. According to their story, all plans tun .irr i .li ii iy i T n nil 1 1 i I H-m -f 1 1 mi rnu.' h h i had been made for dropping tons of trinitrotoluol on Berlin. The distance from Ford Junction to the German capital is about 500 miles. oo-