FULL OF FIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1940, Page 5

FULL OF FIGHT

MEN OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE SAD DAY COMING FOR GERMANY. WHEN EQUALITY OF NUMBERS IS APPROACHED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 6. A flight commander who has five German aircraft to his credit said, in a broadcast that-his pilots, as well as those of the rest of the Fighter Command, were probably even more full of fight now than previously because “we have been at grips with the Luftwaffe in so many circumstances that we have come to know their measure. It is the measure of the bully, and everyone likes to paste a bully. “But speaking of the Luftwaffe at large ” he said, “I know that whatever is their strength in numbers they will never succeed in effectively damaging this country’s war effort. The day will come soon, I hope, when there will be a British fighter in the air for every German aircraft. I do not believe that scores of the enemy will stay to fight. If they do stay there will be few who - will live to fight another day. This pilot was followed by a flight lieutenant of the Australian Air Force who comes from Brisbane. “1 agree entirely,” he said, “that if the British squadrons can keep up their present punch—and they will—it will be a sad day for Germany when we get anything approaching equality of numbers.”