Excerpt from The War in the Air, Vol. 6: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Strength of Western front. Other fields of victory? Lessons of the daylight attacks on England. Decision to double the air services. Forty long-range bombing squadrons. Views of Sir Douglas Haig. Summary of attempts to co-ordinate matters affecting the naval and military air services. Weaknesses of the Air Boards. Lieutenant General J. C. Smuts recommends formation of an Air Ministry and amalgamation of the two air services. Government accept in principle. Air Organization Committee. Work of Sir David Henderson. Sir Douglas Haig critical of the Smuts Report. German night-bombing campaign against England. Urge for retaliation. Lieutenant - General Smuts asked to investigate. 'back ward in all our preparations.' War Cabinet decisions about priorities. Importance of the War Priorities Committee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.