The present winter months, with their long hours of darkness, fit in admirably with the offensive plan of the Royal Air Force, By providing a natural protection for our bombers against fighter attack, they lengthen the strong arm of our striking power snd enable us to reach out and destroy vital resources of the enemy at far distant points already earmarked in the offensive plan but hitherto out of practical reach.
By the time the winter has passed and the nights grow shorter the lidly increasing strength of the Royal Air Force will be ready for action.
Then, the first phase of its offend sive plan completed, the activities of the aerial blockade to be in part replaced or augmented by a "fighting offensive" directed at throwing the German and Italian air forces on the defensive, and so preparing the way for daylight operations, and the final phase,
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