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1942
1942 - 2041.PDF
OCTOBER IST, 1942 FLIGHT WAR IN THE AIR BRITISH AIR LOSSES TO SEPT. 26th. Over G.B. A'crft. Sept. 20 0 , 21 0 , 22 0 23 0 ., 24 0 , 25 0 26 0 0 Over Continent B'brs. Ftre. 0 0 0 1 2 10 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 13 3 Totals : West, 4,782 ; Middle East, Middle East A'erft. 4 0 0 1 1 0 2 8 about 1,718. if it has been sown again during the following night. Our intelligence people know about some of the enemy ships which are destroyed by these mines, but probably the actual num ber is about double those reported. Coastal Command is an amazing organisation. Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferte commands a body which is larger than the whole R.A.F. was in 1939, and it includes many different classes of aircraft. Lately it has been waging a strenuous battle in the Bay of Biscay. Sunder- lands and other heavy aircraft fly out there to search for U-boats. The enemy sends out long-range fighters to drive off our scouting machines, and so we in turn send out Beaufighters to deal with them. A number of very satis factory engagements has been re ported. Mosquito on Ops. "THE new Mosquito light bomber -*- made its official debut (so far as official communiques are concerned) with a sensational daylight raid by four machines on the Nazi headquar ters in Oslo. This attack involved a round trip of over 1,000 miles in day light—a portent of things to come. Fast and manoeuvrable, this latest twin-engined monoplane has been in use for some time. The Germans at first described the raiders as twin- engined Douglas Bostons, so fast and cunningly did the quartette attack then target. Although Fw. 190 fighters got on the tails of the Mosquitos, they FIGHTER RECO : Two N.A. Mustangs of Army Co-operation Command break formation. The two views thus presented show all the salient features of the world's fastest fighter-reconnaissance machine. took a Quisling meeting by surprise and delegates ran for shelters. Sqn. Ldr. D. A. G. Parry led the raid, his 60th sortie, incidentally. Sqn.-Ldr. Parry has recently been awarded a Bar to his D.F.C., and his portrait appears on page 375. Flying at not more than roo feet, they dropped several bombs on the building, which is the headquarters of the Gestapo, and made various holes in it. One was shot down by the Focke-Wulfs, but the rest got home. Norwegians are delighted. Somehow one does not often think of the Air-Sea Rescue Launches as likely to incur heavy casualties, but the launches are sometimes attacked by enemy aircraft. On one such occa sion recently F/O. J. R. L. Hill was killed in such an attack. His loss comes home with special poignancy to all sections of the Press which are in terested in air matters, for F/O. Hill ENEMY AIR LOSSES TO SEPT. O Sept. 20 , 21 M 22 „ 23 24 „ 25 „ 26 Totals : ver G.B. 0 0 0 1 1 . 1 • 0 3 Over Continent 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 West, 6,353 ; Middle E 24th. Middle 4 1 0 0 1 2 7 15 ast, over 4,573. was not long ago an official in the Press Section of the Air Ministry, and most air correspondents have profited by his friendly readiness to help them. Near and Far East A IRCRAFT cannot play much part •^"* in the street fighting in Stalingrad, for the infantry of the two sides are too closely locked together. The city itself has been bombed into ruins. But far ther to the north Russian tanks and aircraft have been prominent in the diversionary attack, which has begun to make appreciable progress. The Luftwaffe has also.been active there. On one day recently 2,000 German sorties were made. Russian fighters, none the less, gave valuable protec tion to their advancing troops, and Stormoviks made havoc of some enemy supply columns, and also attacked his tanks. At Leningrad it is said that Italian Fiats and Capronis have been encountered in large num bers. In the South West Pacific General Mac Arthur continues to hold off the Japanese mainly by use of his bombers. Fortresses are unceasingly active, and the smallness of their losses is quite remarkable. CGkyv
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