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BRITAIN
The Official Account
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The Scene Is Set On Tuesday 20th August 1940, at 3.52 p.m. the Prime Minister gave the House of Commons one of those periodic reviews on the progress of the
war with which members in par.icular and the country in general have
grown familiar. The occasion was grave. On the 8th August the Germans, alter a period of activity against our shipping which had lasted for somewhat longer than a month,
their business with very
little Variations and increases in arma- idea of what was happening high ment were constantly made in all of the air. This battle was not intended to secure victory. These up above their heads in the fields these aircraft which carried bombs shrouded in the majestic and ter-bombers were protected by fight" rible smoke of a land bombard- ers of which the Germans used ment, with its roar of guns, its two main types, Me.109 and flash of shells, its fountains of Me.110. Me,109 in the form then sound nor fury-only the pattern It crupting earth. There was no used was a single seater fighter. of white vapour changing form and shape, traced trails, leisurely
by a number of tiny
specks.
was a low-wing, all-metal, cantilever monoplane armed with cannon firing through the air- screw hub, four machine-guns had launched upon this is and the scintillating like diamonds in the and two more in troughs on the first of a series of mass air attacks splendid sunlight. From very far
top of the engine cowling. Its in daylight. For some ten days
away there broke out from time maximum speed was a little more and notably on the 15th and the to time a chatter against the duller
than 350 miles per hour. Its pilot 18th, men and women in
sound of engines. the
Yet, had that was later protected by back-and- streets of English
chalter not broken out, that re- towns und
front armour of which the size villages and in
mote sound would have changed, and shape the countryside,
became standardised had seen, high up against
first to a roar and then lo a fierce during the course the
of the battle. background of the
shriek punctuated by the crash of | Me.110 was atimuner sky.
a two-seater fighter the shift and play of aircraft en-
heavy bombs as bomber after powered with two engines. It was gaged in that ferce and prolonged few days the
bomber unloaded its cargo. In a an all-metal, low wing, cantilever combat which
southern towns of monoplane with two fixed can- has come to be
England, the capital of the Em-
nons and four fixed machine-guns pire itself, would have suffered to fire forward from the nose. 11 the fate of Warsaw or Rotterdam.
was much larger than Mc.109 but The contest may indeed
be had not got the same capacity of fought by masters likened to a duel with rapiers manoeuvre. Its maximum speed of the art of did not exceed 365 miles per hour. fence. In such an encounter
In this aircraft the crew were thrusts and parries are so swift es protected by back armour only. to be often hard to perceive and The Germans also used a few the spectator realises that the Heinkel 113s. This was a low drops his point or fa'ls defeated plane with single engine. A can- fight is over only when the loser wing, all-metal, cantilever mono- to the ground.
non fired through the airscrew hub and there were two large-bore machine-guns in the wings. The maximum speed was about 380 miles per hour.
To
known as "The Battle of Britain
The House was crowded. its mood was
one of anxious
en- thusiasm, but enthusiasm waxed and anxiety waned as the Prime Minister proceeded to describe the swifty changing
movements of the battle, the opening stages of which some members hud them- selves witnessed.
These Were The Weapons Used
array
was
After referring to the work and achievements of the Royal Navy, Mr. Winston Churchill turned to the war in the rir. "The gratitude, of every home in our island," he said, "in our Empire and, indeed, throughout the world.
except in
Before we can understand the the abodes of the guilty, goes out general strategy and tactles ful-
combat this formidable to British airmen who, undaunted lowed by both sides, something, which Goering hud boasted were of fighters and bombers, by odds, unwearied in their con- must be said of the weapons used. "definitely superior" to any Bri- stant challenge und mortal dan- The Germans sought ger, are turning the tide of the by sending over five main types of used Spitfire, Hurricane and, oc- a decision tish aircraft, the Royal Air Force world war by their prowess and bombers Ju.87, Dive-bomber by their devotion. Never in the Ju.88, various types of Heinkel 111,
casionally. Boulton Paul Deflant.
The feld of human conflict was
1 Spitfire Mark so Dornier 215, and Dornier 17. Ju.87a-single seater fighter with a Rolls much owed by so many to so few." (Type B) was a two-seater Dive-
The Prime Minister was speak- bomber.
Royce Merlin engine. It was a It was an all-metal, low low ing at the moment
cantilever wing, all-metal, when the wing, cantilever monoplane arm- monoplane armed with battle was still at its height, for ed with two fixed machine-guns, Browning machine-guns, four in eight it was not until the end of Octo-one in each wing and a movable each wing, set to fire forward out- ber that the German Luftwaffe machine-gun in the aft cockpit. side the airscrew disc. The maxi- virtually abandoned its attacks When looked at from straight mum speed by day ight and began to rely en- ahead, the wings had the shape hour.
was 366 miles per The Hawker Hurricane tirely on the policy of night raid- of a very at W. Its maximum (Mark 1) was also a single-seater ing-its taelt admission of defeat. speed in level fight was a trighter similarly engined and over 240 miles per hour. Ju.83 armed. Its maximum speed was First Great Battle in
was also a Dive-homber with a 335 miles per hour. In both these History
maximum speed of 317 miles per, aircraft the pilot was protected hour. Its crew and armament were
by front-and-back armour. The It is now possible to tell in similar to those of the Heinkel 111. Boulton Paul Deflant was a two- great part the story of the action The Heinkel 111 (mark V) was a seater fighter with a Rolls Royce all-metal, on which such high praise had low wing,
cantilever engine. It was an all-metal, low- been bestowed. Before doing so, monoplane with two engines. It wing. cantilever monoplane and however, it is worth while to re- carried a crew of four and was
armed with four Browning call the extraordinary nature of armed with three movable
machine-guns mounted in a the battle. Nothing like it has ever machine-guns, one in the nose, che power-operated turret. been fought before in the history on the top of the fuselars and of mankind. It is true that air- one in the streamlined "Blister" British Fighter Force craft frequently met in combat în underneath. Its maximum speed
On Guard the last war: but they did so in was nearly 275 miles per hour. numbers very small when com- The Dornier 215 was a high wing, With such machines as these, pared with those which were en cantilever monoplane of all-metal the Royal Air Force and Luft- gaged above the fields of Kent construction with three movable waffe faced each other on and Sussex, the rolling country machine-guns similarly placed to August when the battle began. of Hampshire and Dorset, the flat those of Heinkel. 111K. Its maxi- lands of Essex and the sprawling mum speed was about 312 miles mass of London. Moreover, from per hour. It was a develop 1914 to 1918 fights took place ment of the Dornier 17, familiar either between individual aircraft ly known as the "Flying Pencil." or between smail formations and This aircraft was a mid wing on engagement in which more cantilever monoplane. It was arm- sufficient strength of fighters must than a hundred aircraft on both ed with two fixed forward-firing | assemble at the required height sides were involved was rare, machine-guns in the fuselage, | above a given place where it can even in the later auges of the one movable gun in the floor and intercept the oncoming enemy raid war. The issue was, in fact, de- one on shie'ded mounting above and break it up before it can reach cided not in the air, in which ele- the wings. Its maximum speed its objective. M ment the rival, air forces played was about 310 miles per hour.
(Continued on Page 5) an important but secondary part, but by slow moving infantry in the heavy mud of Flanders and the Somme. It may be that the same thing, or something Uke it, will ultimately happen in the pre- sent war. Up to the however, the first decisive en- counter between Great Britain and Germany has taken place in the air and was found three, four, five and, sometimes, more than six miles above the surface of the
moment,
earth by some hundreds of air craft, flying at speeds often in ex- cess of 300 miles per hour gr
While this great battle was be-
ing fought" day by day," men and women in this country went about
8th
Before describing it, something must first be said on our methods of defence, although it is not easy to do this without giving away
"State Secrets,""
The governing principle is that
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