6 APRIL 1944, Page 14

THE FACTS ABOUT BOMBING SIR,—In the review of Bombing Vindicated,

by J. M. Spaight, you state: " At last we shook ourselves clear of this unworthy motive and British bombs fell on the German mainland before German bombs fell on ours. This was the raid of May Iith, 1940, when a force of eighteen Whitley bombers attacked railway installations in Western Germany." The Air Ministry's publication Bomber Command says: " It was on the night

of May th-12th, 1940, that British bombs fell for the first time upon objectives on the mainland of Germany. . . . We did not begin to bomb Germany until May t1th, 1940, two days after the Germans had dropped bombs on the mainland of this country (they had already killed a civilian on March 16th)."—Yours faithfully,

WILFRID GAVIN BROWN.