The Archive · 1941

Close to the Enemy

Many of the combats this month y how near they closed to the One pilot was so absorbed attack that he followed the marauder down toward the sea until he was flying through the spray left by the bombers plunge toward the water. Intelligence officers can get nothing but laconic reports such as "I gave him a burst and he went down in flames" This monotony gives a small idea of the hectic minutes in the sky above.

any of the Britain's night fighters to talk of their experiences and what do they say? Here is one of the many. "Ground crews were magnificent. I have never seen such enthusiasm in my life. They refuel and rearm one machine after another with only light from the moon and an occasional torch to help them," hee is rarely a word of their own If pressed, anyone of them will tell you he is merely doing his job for his country and the service he is proud to belong to. For that job he wants fitness, intelligence and courage.

These three will win the battle with night bombers as surely as they won the battle of Britain last year.

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