R.A.F. VIGIL BOTTLES UP NAZI MINELAYERS
LONDON. The Royal Air Force “security patrols” which are being continuously maintained at night over the bases of Germany 's mine-laying an craft in' Heligoland Bight suggest a reversal of previously-accepted tactics in air warfare. Apparently multiple gun turrets provide sufficient protection for The patrolling planes, and the success of thu daring innovation bears out the present belief in the supremacy of the Allies* in the air. Supervision from directly above must be most embarrassing to enemy seaplanes, as they are most vulnerable when they are taking off heavily ladej. The foaming wake inevitable when taking off must be easily visible to the “Dover patrol of the skies” in €he darkest flying weather, even when the patrol is flying out of range of antiaircraft guns—the patrol’s "beat” of 150 miles crosses the heavily-armed Heligoland Bight. The success of this "bottling-up” at the base should greatly relieve the continuous search of thousands of square miles of sea necessary to protect merchantmen convoys along English coasts.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 307, 29 December 1939, Page 8
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