Be day and night Fighter Squadrons of the Royal Air Force sweep the skies in defence of Britain's shores from invading German aircraft and no one knows how successful they have been better than the German pilots themselves.
Even if, at the moment, Great Britain does not possess og many machines as the Germans, the superior quality of British planes and airmen has been proved ovèr and over again in actual combat.
British fighters, who are under the supreme command of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C. T. Dowding, work in close ce-operation with antiaircraft defences, searchlight detachments, the Observer Corps, and the men in charge of the "balloon barrages.
One of the accepted tactical formations is to fly in small groups, which provide a much smaller target for the Germans and however much they may be outnumbered they invariably attack at once with a vic ous speed and skill which is rapidly reducing Germany's air fleet. Quite recently six "British airmen success-dully attacked over eighty German bombers which were about to bomb a convoy; they broke up the German formation,
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