HIGH-FLYING NAZIS

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 7

HIGH-FLYING NAZIS

By Telegraph.―Press Assn.—Copyright.

British Official Wireless.

INFERIORITY THE CAUSE TACTICS OF THE BRITISH

Rec. 5.5 p.m. _ Rugby, Sept. 24. German tactics in the great air battle in which the whole might of the Luftwaffe has been thrown against the British fighter force are designed with the object of providing compensations for their relatively inferior fighter equipment. For this reason the Nazi mass forma-. tions— chiefly fighters, probably accom- , panied by a few bombers— approach England at a great height in the hope that' contact with Royal Air Force fighters will be made when the British machines are at a lower level and therefore at a disadvantage. That the German technique has been adequately dealt with by the British fighter command is shown by the great reduction in German day bombing activity during the past few days. Climbing inland towards the Thames, British fighters attain the requisite height and turn back to bring the enemy to action. The result of these tactics is that many air battles take place over Kent, and some of the more forward aerodromes are not ysed, because it would be impossible for aircraft starting from them to reach the height, which is frequently as great as 30,000 feet, at which the enemy come in. These forward aerodromes have not, however, been in any way given up. The fightev aerodromes which have been attacked by the enemy are in full use. Neither the strength nor the fighting efficiency of the British fighter force has been less since the Nazi attack opened on August 8, and the Royal Air Force awaits the result of the battle with full confidence.