The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-21
New England Is Under
 Attack In Mock Fight
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 Some 15 bombers operate from Langley Field, Va, flying out to sea and heading back to land. From five fields on a semi-circular line from Long Island to Boston rise pur- suit planes-about 65 in alto in- tercept them.
 The air defense bases, so situated as to form a screen along the At lantic seaboard against raiders at- tacking the area, are Mitchell field, Suffolk, five miles south of River head on Long Island; Boston air port, Hills grove at Providence, R. T., and Trumbull at Groton, Conn.
 The area under attack contains hundreds of important military ob- jectives, including aircraft factories on Long Island, arms plants at New Haven, Bridgeport and Stamford, Conn, and arms, engines and pro- peller plants at Hartford, Conn, to mention a few.
 Throughout the area observation posts occupy hilltops, skyscrapers, coast guard stations. In New York cit yspotters in the 1,200-feet Em- pire State building scan the skies.
 Guinea Pig" Center
 New York is the guinea pig" cen ter, employing telephone, teletype and radio. Boston, responsible for the larger of the two sectors, de- pends upon a system operating through telephone centrals for re- laying information from spoilers.
 At New Haven, Conn, White Plains, N. Y, and Hampstead, on Long Island, are filter stations where tellers determine on charts the number, type, altitude and direction of raiders and convey the informa- ton to the center in the New York Telephone building, where 73 girls plot the enemy's course on maps.
 All information is correlated on an operations board above which sit pursuit officers in constant tele- phonic contact with the pursuit op- erations room From this room go out the orders which send pursuit planes into the air and subsequently, Gll cCG lIlCIIl UO IA1S oPOO WA4SAS GAASJ should meet the bombers.
 Theoretically pursuit planes should be roaring across the field for the takeoff two minutes and 28 seconds after a spotter sights an enemy squadron.
 Five to 10 minutes later, if there has been no slip-up. the enemy should be falling in flames or flee ing out to sea.
 Woman Stops Raid
 Air-raid information center, Chel- sea, Mass, Jan. 21.-(UP)-New England's first mock "blitzkrieg was halted northeast of Providence R. l., at $40 a. m. today when pursuit squadron from New London Conn, intercepted several bomb CTS headed for Boston.
 A signal corps communique said that at least 25 "spotters" in obser- vation outposts sighted the bombers as they raced high in the air over southern Rhode Island from Mar ragansett Bay.
 Meanwhile afraid warnings were given six Massachusetts com munities and at least two other flights of enemy" planes were re- ported as the army and more than 900 civilian volunteers, including blind men, debutantes and gov ernor'S daughter, opened the great est air games ever staged in the United States.
 Initial warning in the defense maneuverS came from Lexington, first battle ground of the American Revolution, when Mrs. Mary Reed reported sighting five high-fying planes about eight miles away. A check revealed that these were not enemy" planes.
 Shortly afterward, scores of ob- servers in Connecticut and Rhode Island reported three flights of six planes each heading northeast. The first general afraid warning came at Birmingham at 7:44 a. m. and was followed by similar warnings at Webster and Salem.
 All-Clear Signals
 All-clear signals were given these communities at 1:57 a. m. when 1t was learned that the three flights were defender" planes being brought into the area.
 A second enemy" bomber Squad- ron of undetermined" strength swung out of Buzzard's Bay at mid- morning, roared at high altitude across southeastern Massachusetts and over Brockton where a general air-raid warning was given. Other activity over Massachusetts caused air-raid warnings to be is- sued at Worcester and Auburn. The warnings were similar to those that would be used in actual war times, except that afraid wardens simply notified the major industries in their respective communities. No gongs or bells were sounded.
 The spotting tests, carried out in