REPLY TO NAZIS
NIGHT RAID PROBLEM Britain is expanding her night fighter squadrons, and gradually the numbers of enemy, night bombers shot down will increase, a highly placed British official said recently. "Our only big victory of the war. apart from the River Plate battle (with the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee), was the defeat of mass formations of German bomb ers escorted by many fighters during the air offensive prior to September 16," said the official.. "We were able to smash the German fighters and get in among the bombers. The enemy decided that these tactics were too expensive, and since then has been solely using fighter-bombers at a great height. "One of our fighters, flying at 37,800 feet, was dived upon and thought that this was not "These tactics have been rather difficult to counter. We lately have been shooting down about two Germans to our one, whereas formerly we wore shooting down four and five to one. "The Germans are not winning the war by these tactics. Bombing has been haphazard, desultory, and indiscriminate, and mostly has killed civilians, whereas it might more profitably have been concentrated on military objectives."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 2
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194REPLY TO NAZIS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 2
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