AIR BATTLES
R.A.F. STILL STRIKING HARD DAY ATTACKS & NIGHT BOMBING. GERMANY'S HEAVY LOSS OF PLANES. LONDON, June 24. It is reported that the R.A.F. made another big offensive sweep over Northern France early this evening, when the roar of bombing and violent explosions were heard. In the last eight days, the Germans have lost 118 planes in battles with the R.A.F. over the Channel and Northern France. In yesterday's operations 20 enemy aircraft were accounted for. During the eight days, Britain has lost 24 fighters and 4 bombers. The pilots of five of the British machines are safe. British aircraft attacked Germany in strength again last night, the principal targets being in Cologne and Dusseldorf!’. Wilhelmshaven, Emden and Bremen were also attacked. One British plane was lost. A German bomber was shot down over Britain last night, when enemy air activity was again only on a slight scale. No hostile aircraft had been reported up to a late hour this evening.
DAYLIGHT ATTACKS ON EXPANDING SCALE. LUFTWAFFE INCREASINGLY OUTCLASSED. LONDON. June 23. A tremendous daylight offensive carried out by the Royal Air Force between Dunkirk and Brest today, resulting in a total bag of 20 German planes, was far beyond the proportions of the usual sweeps. The R.A.F. penetrated 50 miles inland. The “Daily Mail’s" aeronautical correspondent says the extent of the operations indicates that the stage has been reached when R.A.F. attacks for the first time place the Luftwaffe in clanger of being more heavily attacked than it can attack. “For many weeks,” says “The Times” aeronautical writer, “the R.A.F.'s promised full-scale day and night offensive against occupied France and Germany has been growing in a crescendo. At first the daylight operations were a tentative testing of the opposition by a quick swoop over the coast. The scale was gradually built up and now daily strong bomber formations, escorted by hundreds of fighters, penetrate farther and farther inland. No enemy aerodrome or military target can now feel safe from a daylight attack. “Concident with the quickening of the day offensive, the night battering at the enemy’s industrial centres is incessant and ever heavier, while the Luftwaffe’s attacks against Britain have dwindled. Russian bombers will now be able to hit the Reich's eastern industrial centres.
"It is the daylight offensives which will win the war. The extension of the R.A.F.’s daylight operations is a most encouraging sign on the R.A.F. road t.o final mastery of the Luftwaffe.” The “Daily Telegraph” says Squadron Leader R. R. Tuck is now recognised as Britain's ace pilot, having brought down 32 German planes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1941, Page 5
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