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Show Air Power Depends Upon Bases The invasion of Crete, by German Ger-man parachutists, owed its success suc-cess to the control of the air, acquired ac-quired by the use of thousands of German airplanes. The strateg-sts are wondering d this island oonquest may prove to be the testing ground of tac-ucs tac-ucs that will, some time, pave the .uy for a successful invasion of Great Britain. 'Iheie -S no way to tell. Certainly, Cer-tainly, if Germany ever manages to control the air over England tne island will be in grave danger dan-ger of invasion and oonquest. Wheiner this will happen remains iO be seen. Obv.ously, the British are better bet-ter prepared to contest aerial .mai.ery over England than they were .n Crete. Equally apparent .s the undoubted fact that Germany Germ-any has hundreds of air bases .viihin striking distance of Eng-.and. Eng-.and. it would be possible, .we presume, for the Germans to launch a stupendous aerial attack at-tack upon the ainfields of Great Br.tain with the idea of putting them out of commission, and the effort might succeed. i'h.s is the danger that the British Brit-ish face now. Outnumbered in the air in modern warfare is just Lke being outgunned in earlier wars, with the difference that aer.al artillery strikes at 300 miles cm hour. Tne defense :s yet to be found tfor night attacks and only offensive tactics, destroying, de-stroying, enemy bases, can protect a nation from threatened disaster. This co.iclus.on explains , the insistence of President Roosevelt Roose-velt that the United States must prevent em.-ney nations from acquiring ac-quiring bases from which to launch aerial assaults upon us. If we stand by, while Germany advances ad-vances her "bases toward this continent, con-tinent, our position will be dangerous. |
