Great Britain and France mastered the menace of the submarine, largely thanks to air patrol of the waters around the British Isles and to air escorts ce-operating with naval escorts for our conve: Several submarines have been sunk by Allied aircraft. But apart from the actual sinking of submarines Britain's air patrols and escorts effectually render them impotent, for it is suicidal for a submarine to attack ships when they are escorted by aircraft. Thus not only are more submarines being sunk than at this stage in the last war, but, eyen more important, each submarine àt sea is doing less damage before its day of reckoning comes.
Finally, though the war in the air cannot be said to have begun, the results so far go to show that attacks on ships of the British Fleet are ineffective and expensive and British fighters have shot down a high percentage of German raiding bombers so far without loss to themselves. Not too much can be built on th promising beginning, but enough has been said to show that Great Britain will soon be in a better Position to give a knockout blow from the air than Germany.
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