VBCW BOMBERS

 A lovely late 1930s illustration of the "Bombers of the VBCW":

A bewildering array of different types (15 in total) - and many of them obsolescent or nearing obsolescence by the late 1930s, viz. the Hawker Hart and Hawker Hind biplane light bombers, designed by Sidney Camm in the 1920s, the Handley Page Heyford heavy bomber, a 1927 design being phased out of front line service by 1937, and (most notoriously) the Vickers Vildebeest torpedo bomber, a 1925 design simply blown away by Japanese Zeros (when not destroyed on the ground by their accompanying bombers) at Singapore in 1941. The similar fate of the Fairey Battle at the hands of the Luftwaffe in 1940 has already briefly been referred to....

Still, back in 1938 and the Hereford VBCW, possession of even one functioning bomber, obsolescent or not, might prove of decisive advantage....