With men of this calibre joining the Royal Air Force in increasing numbers and flying the finest machines in the world it is little wonder that the constant raids on Germany aire the Germans "think furious by the time the German for ched Paris no fewer than 416 big scale operations had been carried out over Germany and in countries from which she was operating.
Since then the raids have been intensified and they have been directed at Germany's main military and muni-tien centres. Some 66 attacks have been made on the German Nav air-fields, troopships and battleships are being constantly bombed and tremendous havoc effected on oil Tefineries, oil storage depots, dockyards, aeroplane factories, power plants, roads, railways and canals. Gun emplacements, searchlight batteries and troop formations are plastered with high-explosives.
The actual air: fighting is taking a steady toll of the German Air Force and there is evidence that Germany is suffering from a lack of trained reserves, In spirit, dash and clan the British airman is greatly superior to the German, however much he may be outnumbered, Recently six British Spitfires tackle ed a fleet of eighty German machin Picture (2) shows a rear gunner in the tail of his aircraft operating two guns of a type which have been used with success against German machines.
Britain possess possibly the best aileron and elevator cables mb-sight in the world and as broken and the flaps were out of tale strated in Picture (3) every pupil action, the under-carriage damaged, learns to use this on the ground the tyres of one landing wheel and before he has practical experience in tail wheel punctured, one petrol the air. tank was holed and the glass From the beginning of the war up several windows broken. Despite jet Stalin take Karelia, Estonia, Lat-to the middle of August nearly three hundred German planes are definitely known to have been brought dow and around Britain's coasts and n eight day: since June 18 German re hed double figures. On July no fewer than 28 German planes were destroyed: and many others were so seriously damaged that they probably ailed to return home. this the pilot managed to land safel; after a journey; icross the North The power-operated turret i British aircraft has given British gunners an immense ad thor gh instruction in given at every home station. Ther several instructional turrets at station and in Picture (4) w of the men making himself acquainted with its intricate mechanism, Airworthiness of R.A.F. Machines British machines on the other hand remain airworthy despite heavy anti-aircraft fire. One Hudson of the Coastal Command recently returned after a raid en the No!
n coast with 7: shrapnel hol and gash in the wing hi; enough for two men to crawl throu!
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