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1943
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SEPTEMBER 23RD, 1943 327 I ICE PACK PATROL : In addition to watching for U-boats, Coastal Command watches over the northern Atlantic and warns shipping of iceberg dangers. Fury in the West : Albctcore Dive-bombers : Novorossisk Recaptured : The Salerno Battle WHILE the fighting rages inItaly and Russia, the raidingof northern France and the Low Countries by all sorts and descriptions of aircraft in Great Britain that are capable of carrying a bomb and dropping it where it will be most useful has been rising of late to a perfect crescendo. Every day R.A.F. fighters swarmed overhead, and many deeds of gallantry have been recorded every day. For several days on end bad weather kept the heavy night bombers at home, but intruders went out and picked up (so to speak) an odd enemy aircraft here and there. Nothing could be better calculated to shake the nerves of German bomber crews than the feel- ing that they may be shot down when on the point of taking ofl or landing at night. The Spitfires and Typhoons havenot, however, been able to report any very large bags. Often they searchedeagerly for something to fight, but had to return home disappointed. TheGermans are probably saving their fighters so far as they can for "theday''—which will be the opposite of what they used to call Der tag. Nowit means the day when they will have to meet invasion from Britain. Thedrum-fire of bombs suggests that they may not have to wait long. Another sign of the times comesfrom South Africa, where the military authorities see no further reason fora stringent black-out. Houses along the coast have to be darkened onlyafter 11 p.m., while motor cars are allowed to keep their head lamps on.The victories in the Mediterranean have removed the need for continuousstreams of shipping round the Cape, and consequently there is not muchto attract U-boats to those southern waters. One can imagine that soonthe Suez Canal will see a fleet of HOOKING A HAWKER: A sea Hurricane just about to pick up thearrester wires on the flight deck of H.M.S. Argus.
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