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November 9, 1939.

Ernie Bushmiller

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AERIAL WAR: POLAND

WAS NOT

AVIATION military ob definitive answer to the role ¡of aviation in modern war-

servers as yet have no

fare.

The layman might think the crushing of Poland was the an-

swer.

But it wasn't.

Air power can only be weighed when the opposing forces have about the same strength. The German Air Force used in Poland for out- weighed the Polish force, while the fighting on the Western Front is too recent to permit a decision.

The Polish campaign only proved what had

had already been proved in. Spain and China, that a superior nit force operating against an enemy poorly equipped with aircraft and

ti-aircraft

Guns,

Elves the attack-

ing armies tremendour advantages.

REAL TEST

Lost In 19 Days: 600 To 700 Planes

Bucharest.

Polish Air Force losses dur- ing 19 days of warfare with Germany are estimated in an unofficial survoy at between 600 and 700 plancs,

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At the beginning of the war Sept. 1, Poland was reported to have approximately 1,000 serviceable planes of all types. The remnants of the Air Force ---about 300 planas-now aro interned in Rumania and Lithuania,

Aviation as a term to two broad known as "attack" aviation. Special

fire.

A Pistol Shot

One day on officer in an observa-; tion plane took a pistol shot at on to-day. Tremendous expansion enemy observation plane as it passed, bombing

That was

Now an army is far more than its front line. Behind that is the artd-

er, at different depths according to

iis range. Behind the artillery are

the airdromes. Running through these

groups are the all-important supply jines bringing up food, ammunition, and fuel for the mechanised arms,

Before development sir power, artillery laboured slowly and long to get at these lines and then never to any great depth. The advances for- ward were accordingly slow. Then came air power.

When the war started in Poland some 2,000 first class German planes swept into action. An unwise Polish command had strung out the Army too thin, waiting too late before bringing it back to a short straight defensible line. Supply lines were strung out making vulnerable targets. Lack of proper underground air hangars left the Polish planes and workshops exposed.

Avalanche

The result is history. The German

for an accurate analysis of its use planes with great fire power, whose forces swept in and relentlessly In warfare. It must first be divided pilots are trained to fly low and bombed the supply lines and air- into its relative branches. In the hedge-hop, ware developed. Special dromes out of existence Plane re- World War aviation was first used for bombs for use in trench attacks were pairs for Poland coased.. observation purposes. told of developed for them. To-day attack Alrcraft were destroyed on the enemy activity and directed artillery javiation is a major aid in air war-ground before they could rise. With

inre,

the Polish air resistance broken the Observation, pursuit, and attack skies became even easier Janes of lavintion are now taken for granted. operation, Polish troops trying to Bombing the spotlighted branch reassemble for counterattacks were casily spotted, bombed, and machine effectiveness 1105 been gunned. Meantime such tactical the beginning of nerial dramatised in the past decade. If we efforts were reported to the German warfare. The French sent up special consider bombing as an extension of command. Its motorised forces, thus ships to accompany the observation artillery we get a better concept of guided, quickly rushed in and clean- planes and fight off German alrerait. its use. The Germans did the same. These

ed up anything the planes had left protection planes

Before air bombing was used, for- unfinished. were soon busy ward drives were carried out seeking each other out and engaging artillery fire. Once the resistance had momentum inan

by An important thing in warfare is in air combat. Thus the beginning of been broken by such fire the infantry German drive got a starting momen- offensive. The "pursuit" or "chanse" aviation, mark-moved forward to take and hold the tum which never stopped. Its air ed by the use of machine guns in-position. Artillery was limited, even power cleared the way an that its stead of pistols.

(with heavy railway guns, to 20 miles, path was Bierally oiled. Before such Finally came the realisation that while most of it functioned in the drive the Polish Army never got planes made big enough to carry held with much shorter ranges. The chance to stop and take a breath, to bombs could do what artillery could forward speed of never do, go over the enemy nesmiled by

the armies was reorganise, and, most important, to the combination of dig in and establish the only kind of and drop "shells" right where they artillery range, fre power, and defensive "position that could stop would do the most damage. Thus mobility, presuming effective Infan- the German drive, came into effect bombing which was try woric, Just being organised as a long range

Tar

Thus we can see what the new air arm of bombing can do when project when the war ended in 1918. Range Vastly Expanded

Looking at Poland we have a good will be a for different story on the weakly or improperly opposed. It Pursuit planes, ranging the skies example of what bombing av atton Western Front. British und French opponents, occasionally swept can do as an extension of artillery. air power has increased to the point down on enemy trenches und march-The range becomes extended to, hun- where it probably equals German Ing troops to machine

gun them. The effect on morale was sa great heavy with modern big bombers. Into stiff resistance. Their ground dreds of miles. The fire power is air power. The Germans will-ruh much more so than the actual injuries The mobility is unbelievably great. troops will never obtain the momen-. received, that this was seen as a new with forward speed and potent air activity.

of nearly 300 tum which permits aviation to give miles an hour in some cases. In is maximum akt os in Poland. Then addition these planes are acting as at last all the guesses of what modern to change in an Instant their direction major war between relatively equal their own observers, tactically able military aviation can really do in. a and concentrations,

nowers will be really answered,

Separate Military Arm After the World War the serial arm was organised Into a regular branch

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