Herbert George Wells,
Heroic Airmen Are Key To Victory
(1918)
“ If we press the fighting side—which is the vital side—if, that is to say, we ransack our vast reserves of young men throughout the world to find and train and use every one who has the rare and peculiar gifts that make a first-class air fighter, irrespective of social position or any other secondary issue, then it seems to me that a victorious end to this war must come. ”
Herbert George Wells,
Heroic Airmen Are Key To Victory
(1918)
“ Our airmen are naturally very chary of under-estimating the enemy, but they do agree in telling me that in the case of certain rather difficult turns and manoeuvres our fighting men can all do as a matter of course things which the German fighter regards as exceptional accomplishments. We have reckoned upon all sorts of shortages as possible factors in the overthrow of German imperialism. Have we reckoned fully upon this possibility of a shortage of air fighters? ”
Herbert George Wells,
Heroic Airmen Are Key To Victory
(1918)
“ Is it not possible to press the air war so hard, so to concentrate on the air attack, as to bring the German air arm to breaking point? It is possible that people’s minds are sometimes overexercised by the thought of air raids and counter-raids. ”
