The Archive · 1940

British Air Superiority

"No officer or man, no brigade or division, which grapples at close quarters with the enemy wherever encountered, can fail to make a worthy contribution to general results, Armies must cast away the idea of resisting an attack behind conerete lines of natural obstacles. and must realize that mastery can only be regained by a furious, unrelenting assault, "And this spirit must not only animate the high command, but must inspire every fighting man. In the air, even at serious odds, even at odds hitherto thought overwhelming, we have been clawing down three or four ¢o one of our enemies, and the relative balance of the British and German air force is now considerably more favourable to us than at the beginning of the war, (Continued on page 8, col. 4)

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