NAZI TACTICS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1940, Page 5

NAZI TACTICS

MET AND CHECKMATED BY R.A.F. ACTION AGAINST MASS FORMATIONS. POSITION OF FORWARD AERODROMES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 24. The German tactics in the great ait; battle in which the while 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 Nazi mass formations —chiefly of fighters, which are probably accompanied 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 this technique has been adequately dealt with by the British Fighter Command is shown by a great reduction of the German day bombing activity during the past few days. Climbing inland toward 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 of the air battles take place over Kent, and some of the more forward aerodromes are not used as it would be impossible for aircraft starting from them to reach the height 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 fighter aerodromes which have been attacked by the enemy are in full use. Neither the strength nor the fighting efficiency of the British fighter force is any less since the Nazi attack opened on August 8, and the R.A.F. awaits the result of the battle with full confidence.