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16.
Mr. Stokes
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether on any occasion instructions have been given to British airmen to engage in area bombing rather than limit their attention to purely military targets?
Sir A. Sinclair
The targets of Bomber Command are always military, but night bombing of military objectives necessarily involves bombing the area in which they are situated.