8,000-pound Bombs

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force – in the House of Commons at on 17 March 1943.

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Photo of Sir Patrick Donner Sir Patrick Donner , Basingstoke

asked the Secretary of State for Air what evidence, photographic or otherwise, is in his possession which justifies the use of 8,000-pound bombs in circumstances where double the number of 4,000-pound bombs can be carried; and whether he is satisfied that the use of the 8,000-pound bomb is so much more destructive in its effect as to more than counterbalance the disadvantage of the smaller number of probable direct hits?

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