The Archive · 1940

R.A.F. Action on Nazis Doubled

Britain Carries Battle Into Enemy Camp with 100 Per Cent, Increase in Str ing Force London, Sept. 27. OMBERS of the Royal Air Force have recently doubled the Bri ish air offensive against Germany. says Reuter's air respondent.

Besides the night and day battering of the Nazi invasion plat~ form, R.A.F, bombers are now carrying the battle of Britain into the far corners of the enemy camp.

The 12-hour stretch between sunset and dawn has brought the whole of Germany proper within the range of Britain's long-range aircraft.

This week, some of these ints flew to within 55 miles of the Polish frontier to bomb an electric power station.

In the absence of fighter escorts, there is a strict limit to the extent of operations which can be carried ut in daylight, but nevertheless day. action within the smaller are of medium-bomber range is on the By increasing bomber action by 100 per cent, the Royal Air Force has. climbed only the frst step in the predetermined ladder whereby the Offensive will eventually reach proportions hitherto "undreamed of," as Me. Winston Churchill has promised, Military objectives in Berlin as in and around other large German cities,

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