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 ...646 FLIGHT JUNE 25TH, 1942
BATTLESHIPS or CARRIERS ?
The Latest American Shipbuilding Programme : Lessons of
Coral Sea and Midway Battles
By MAJOR F. A. de V. ROBERTSON, V.D.
THE change in the Un...
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 ...MAY 14TH, 1942
WAR IN THE AIR
ENEMY AIR LOSSES TO MAY 9th.
Over
Over G.B. Continent Middle East
May 3 5
..44.
„ 5 0
, 6 0
. 7 3
,.8 2
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• 16
Totals: North 5,878 ;
8
10
4
2
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 ...the recent desperate fighting,
though the Empire Air Forces have used bomb and
cannon with great effect.
The Midway Mystery T
HE battle of Midway Island seems to have fol
lowed the pattern of the battle of the Coral Sea,
and that pattern is a new thing in naval warfare.
So far as our present knowledge goes, and it is certainly
very scrappy, in each case the opposing fleets did not
come to ...
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 ...°32 FLIGHT
WAR IN THE AIR
was hit and set on fire, and it is be
lieved that a destroyer was also hit.
The fighting was not all in the air,
for our ships did some damage, too.
That convoy got thr...
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 ...urma railway from Rangoon. This
name is usually pronounced by Britons
in Burma as '' Mitchinar.'' It and
other Burmese names have consider
ably worried the B.B.C. announcers—
and no wonder.
The battle of the Coral Sea has died
away, and it seems to have put
a stop to one effort by the' Japanese
to overwhelm the United Nations in
the South-West Pacific. Mr. Curtin,
the Australian Premier...
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 ...JUNE I8TH, 1942.
WAR IN THE AIR
ENEMY AIR %
O
June 7
.. 8
„ 9
„ 10
.. II „ U
„ 13
Totals :
ver G.B
1
2
0
2
1
0
0
6
LOSSES TO JUNE 13th.
Over
Continent
0
4
0
3
0
0
0
7
Mi...
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 ...7TO
AIR POWER IN 1942
It has been asserted by some ob
servers that a few squadrons of Hurri
canes might still have saved Malaya,
but the assertion does not seem well
founded. Japanese aircraft w...
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 ...AIRCRAFT ENGINEER
FIRST AERONAUTICAL WEEKLY IN THE WORLD •• FOUNDED IQO9
Editor
C. M. POULSEN
Managing Editor
G. GEOFFREY SMITH, M.B.E. Chief Photographer
JOHN YOXALL
Editorial, Advertising and...
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 ...JUNE I8TH, 1,42
Wrin the Air
The Air-sea Fight for
Midway : The R.A.A.F.
lifter New Guinea : Bir
Hakeim Lost
WITH a great sea-air battle for Midway Island just over, a furious struggle raging in...
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 ...OCTOBER 8TH, 1942 FLIGHT 385
THE LUFTWAFFE IN RUSSIA
Air Forces in Close Support : The Stukas : German Losses :
|i , The Battle for Stalingrad
By V. L. GRUBERG I
N an attempt to describe the air f...
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 ...JA.M'ARY 22ND, 1942 FLIGHT 65
War in the Air
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Rommel's Predicament
IMPORTANT fighting has been going on in pretty well every area of the war, but not all of it has
produced news of real air sign...
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 ...614 FLIGHT DECEMBER 3RD, 1942
WHITHER NEXT ?
plained that it was being left short. No ose ever has
enough of aircraft or of anything else in war.
In spite of the lack of precedent in air warfare, ...
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 ...AIRCRAFT ENGINEER
FIRST AERONAUTICAL WEEKLY IN THE WORLD .• FOUNDED IQO9
Editor
C. M. POULSEN
Managing Editor
G. GEOFFREY SMITH, M.B.E. Chief Photographer
JOHN YOXALL
V
Editorial, Advertising ...
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 ...462
WAR IN THE AIR
ners can be protected from the dive-
bombers the Russian prospects will
certainly be brighter. But the ulti
mate result of this unprecedented
assault and unprecedented defence ...
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 ...352 FLIGHT OCTOBER IST, 1942
different speeds and heights for a minimum of drag.
Modern installations show how well the designers have
succeeded in this direction, in addition to achieving the
des...
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 ...NOVEMBER 5TH, 1942
A Hurricane catapult fighter on a C.A.M. ship. These fighters now belong to a so-
called Merchant Ship Fighter Unit.
war by any carrier entirely at night. The Swordfish took
off ...
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 ...172 F LIG
WAR IN THE AIR
hurried across to Rommel proved very
expensive in Axis aircraft. In the first
three weeks of July no less than 113
machines were destroyed by the
Malta defences. Rommel ...
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 ...NOVEMBER 5TH, 1942
WAR IN THE AIR
ENEMY AIR LOSSES TO
Over G.B.
Oct. 25
„ 26
• 27
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Total*
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2
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15
Over
Continent
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r
OCT. 31st.
Middle Ea...
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 ...SEPTEMBER TOTH, 1942 F L I
NORWEGIANS
Inspecting the wing of a Spitfire V damaged by cannon shell
over Dieppe.
taking an active part in the training, and after several
successful parachute descen...
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 ...426 FLIGHT APRIL 30TH, 1943
4
THOSE MYSTERIOUS DIVE-BOMBERS
'' On the transports in the convoys
are vital supplies, headed primarily
by fighter planes and dive-bombers."
"Vital" is the appropria...
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