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1944
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SEPTEMBER 14TH, 1944 FLIGHT 277 *i An impression of the composite Me 109 Ju88 operated by the Germans. The Ju88 carries i the target by the pilot of the Me 109. The Fleet Air Arm off Norway : Bombing the Channel Ports : Success of Mosquito Night-fighters : Modern Cavalry in the Pursuit TT is said that Herr Adolf Hitler is £»-] insensible to feminine charms. If •*•- that be true, he would not be much interested in a song about a Roman lass named Lalage. None the less, in that song, which Kipling puts into the mouth of a centurion, there are lines which might well be spoken (hardly sung) just now by Herr Hitler. The song starts: — " When 1 left Rome for Lalage's sake "By the Legions' Road to Rimini. . . ." And it concludes: — " And I've lost Britain and I've lost Gaul " And I've lost Rome, and worst of all I've lost Lalage." If Adolf has anything more to lose 1 Berchtesgaden, for instance), he will certainly lose it before long. Sug gestions have been made that a very comfortable long-range aircraft has been prepared to take Adolf, Hermann, Gobbels, Himmler, and a select party of other scoundrels off non-stop to the Argentine. It must have been a disappointment to thetn to. hear the other day that the Argentine, as well as Sweden, has publicly announced that it will not receive and harbour war criminals of that type. The Fleet Air Arm has been active again. In the last week of August Admiral Sir Henry Moore, K.C.B., C.V.O., C.-in-C. of the Home Fleet, took a force of carriers, with suitable escort, to the coast of Norway, and the aircraft proceeded to attack all useful targets in the vicinity. The poor old Tirpitz was attacked again with both medium and large bombs, and was believed to have been further ^damaged, though a smoke screen pre vented close observation of the results. One gallant pilot, Lt. Cdr. R. H. Richardson, after using up all his ammunition, lowered his arrestor hook, came down low, and tore off the aerials of a wireless station. Next day his Hellcat was hit by flak and this very gallant officer was killed. The operations lasted for several days and 11 naval aircraft were. lost. The frigate H.M.S. Bickerton was tor pedoed and sunk. Barracudas, Hell cats, Seafires, and Corsairs, all took part in the operations. One enemy anti-aircraft vessel blew up, a destroyer and a tanker were set on fire, and at least 16 other vessels were damaged. The part played by the Luftwaffe was not remarkable. Five enemy aircraft were shot down by our fighters, four more were destroyed on the water, and two others damaged. In addition, several more were either destroyed or damaged on the ground. On the other hand, the flak was intense. This was the largest operation in which naval aircraft have played the chief part, and it may be the last con siderable naval engagement of the war against Germany. Brest and Le Havre '"PHERE must be many air crews in -*- Bomber Command to whom the word Brest will always recall the period when the Scharnhorst, (jneisenau, and PrFnz Eugen were sheltering there and had to be kept under an almost nightly rain of bombs to prevent them from getting loose into the Atlantic to play havoc with Allied
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