The Archive · 1941

Vichy Lodges Protest Over Monselet Sinking

Vichy, Sept. 25.

The French Government yesterday strongly' protested to London against the ME of the Frendh freighter jet.

me, Arey, that the Monselet was engine stops when they in one of these sweeps over occu pied France the airplane is a deed loss and they are made prisoner. So the first big difference between wh: the R.A.F. pilots are doing now and tion. Over the other side they have to fight with one eve on the clock—or his throw all other thoughts to the winds except that concerned with manceuvring for position.

Escorting Bombers is Not Easy sweeps—there is yet another sidiary problem to be consi E The "bombers will be quite a lot slower than the fighters. But the fighters must keep with them all the time. It is extraordinary how quick-be than anything else. But in the matter of air fighting I think there mans held what practically amounted There was s, time when the Ger:

air. supremacy. But later in the in the heavy the into|war the Allies got th HE ers could inform me of the value of Points Ming' phosphates which points, firstly, that the Monselet was and if there is a market for a Shang-are Hai Municipal Jubilee Medal dated mot making their bombing When

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