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1942 - 1991.PDF
SEPTEMBER 24TH, 1942 WAR IN THE AIR - ENEMY AIR Over G.B Sept. 13. ., 14 ,. 15 „ 16 ., 17 .. 18 . 19 Totals : 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 S LOSSES TO SEPT. I»th. Over Continent 0 0 0 3 3 1 0 ~7 West, 6,343 ; Middle Middle East 0 1 6 2 2 (No date) 2 0 13 East, over 4,558. ^•jgs,s accurate than fixing at close qHge, and when both gun-platform and target are moving at very high speed, and both manoeuvring in three dimensions, the difference between long and short range fifing is certain to be especially marked. The Western Front TT has now been announced that •*• Bomber Command has been drop ping 8,000 lb. bombs on the western front. Perhaps it was one of these monsters which caused a terrific explo sion in a recent raid on Wilhelms- haven. This explosion astonished even experienced bomber pilots who were over the port at the time, and they attributed it to a Very large oil store exploding. At any rate, a Stirling pilot said that it was too big to be just a 4,000 lb. bomb exploding. This parti cular raid was carried out with a loss of only two of our bombers. Other raids have been made on Essen and the Ruhr, on the Saar coalfield and on Munich, and in all these places very large fires were started. All raids now are concentrated into very short periods of time, giving no opportunity to the defence services to deal with one fire at a time. Daylight raiding by fighters and jt or medium bombers have been IN A DREADFUL FLAP : The pilot of a Hudson and two of his crew standing in the hole made by an A.A. shell when attacking a German convoy off the Dutch coast. continued, and Mustangs of Army Co operation Command have taken part in some* of them. Many locomotive engines have been put out of action. The Luftwaffe has retaliated mainly with tip-and-run raids by Fw.190 fighters, which mostly work in pairs. It is very difficult to intercept such raiders. Heroic Russian Defence "TTiE Germans have forced their way •*• into some of the outskirts of Stalingrad, and as we go to press desperate fighting is going on in streets and suburbs. In this sort of fighting aircraft can take hardly any part, but in the stages before the enemy got into the suburbs the Germans were using their bombers as their normal every-day artillery, and were holding their tanks back, or using them with a good deal of caution. They outnumbered the Russians in air craft, but the Red Air Fleet was still in the BRITISH AIR LOSSES TO SEPT. 19th. Sept. 13 14 „ IS ., 16 . 17 ,. 18 ,. 19 Totals ^ Over Continent middle A'crft. B'brs. F'trt. A'crft. 0 19 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 39 I 2 III I 0 5 0 2 0 10 0 0 _ _ _ 22» 1 76 2 — — — — 38 West, 4,766; Middle East, about 1,710. * Not reported before. FLAKLIGHT PHOTOGRAPH : A salvo of bombs going down dur ing a night attack on >nemy ship- i&%. The photo- was taken solely~W the light of thKflak. picture and was fighting back with great spirit. At night numbers do not cotent in the same way, and one German correspondent at Stalingrad said that he could not sleep at night because the Russian aircraft came over so often and flew very low. He also said that the Russians seemed to know the places where the Germans were short of ammunition and had to be economic in the use of A.A. shells. The German fighter squadrons in Russia are said to have been re- equipped with a new type of Messer- sctimitt, the MCIOQG. This machine is said to have a liquid-cooled engine of 1,700 h.p., and according to one account can reach a height of 40,000 feet. The speed is given as about 325 m.p.h. at 13,000 feet. The armament is stated to be three cannon and two machine guns. It probably has a pressure cabin for the pilot. Last spring a new Me. fighter of the designation 209 was referred to in the. Press as under development. It was credited with a ceiling of 42,000ft. and a maximum speed of 398 m.p.h. at 21,oooft. A Daimler-Benz 603 type liquid-cooled engine was the power unit named, and a German source gave the wing span as 31ft. 2in.
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