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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1953.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR
“TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY.” CHAPTER FOUR
MEMOIRS
HOW WE MASTERED
THE
FLYING
will
yards to
There Wps a lonx
BOMB
urgently on D-Day In reac. 2ot be certain of his safe return, silence and the matter droppe smaller than normal aircraft, and 20 I passed it to an Inter-Service
every so they were difficult either to Committee under Duncan Sandvagh; fighters ranging put over
tion to our Auccensos Normandy.
As
the days passed
and Allied FN the early hours of than the air raids of 1040 and a Member Indigonally neked, and to the fighters had to fly defences in numbers which, al- airmen of Bellah
for smaller than the bombers had died in London's June 13, 1944, exactly 1041. Suspense and strain were "Why have we come back here?" standing patrols, finding and though
another chasing their quarry with the enemy had originally hoped, defence. a week after D-Day, more prolonged. Dawn brought Before I could reply
no relief, and cloud no comfort. Member intervened. "If the hon. help of instructions and running were presenting us with many At the headquarters of the Ate four pilotless aircraft The men
from walk a few commentaries going home in the gentleman
Radar problems.
Defence of Great Britain much knew what he hundred They evening never crossed our coast.
Bird stations and observer corps posis
For the first week of the thought had been given to the would find; his
wife; alb
alone all eage Walk ho will ace the on the ground.. were the premature result
bombardment, I kept the control roles of fighters, and runs. Our The fiving bombs were much in my own hands. But on June dispositions had seemed sensible a German order, sent day or with the children, could reason."
The blind impersonal nature of
The sea and over most of Kent In the missile made the individual
There were poor the Prime Minister's son-in- ́and Sussex, where the
Bombs on the ground feel helpless borough in London was hit. The ace or hit
then
Parliamentary were dispersed,. and guns There was little that he could worst damage lay in a belt ex- chances of a "kill" from much faw,
of Supply) concentrated
in
a belt, nearer that he tending from Stepney and Poplar more than 300 yards; but it was Secretary, Ministry One reached Bethna do. no human enemy
south-westwards to Wandsworth dangerous to open fire from less which war known by the code London where the bombs drew
The into "Crossbow. Green, where It killed six could see shot down.
front as Or Individual than 200 yards, because the ex- name and. Milchom.
a more compret approached their target, people and injured nine;
boroughs Croydon suffered most ploding bomb might destroy the Commitice included Air Marshal they
This seemed to give each Bottomley, Deputy Chief of the the others caused no casual-
hits, including eight n
of defence its best The red flame of their exhausts Air Staff, Air Marshal Hill, Air melled single day, followed bbs in ntlocking Aghter. ties. Nothing further hap
worth, Lewisham, Camberwell, made the bomba casier to ste in fleer Commanding Air Defence chance, and it was no surprise that pened until lato on June 16,
Woolwich .and Oreenwich. the
weeks of dark.
and during the first two of Great Britain, and Cen. Pilo, in the first anti-aircraft batteries when the Germans started My daughter Mary was all
serving their campaign of "retalla- Anti-Aircraft Battery
In the Hyde Park Bockenham, Lambeth, Orpington, nights our anti-n
fred on them and Anti-Aircraft Command, and Purley, West Ham, in London On the Chislehurst, and Mitcham." claimed to have brought many tian" ("Vergeltung") in morning of Sunday, June 18,
About three-quarter of down. This tended to serve the carnest, More than 200 of when I was at Chequers, Mrs
were million houses
damaged, enemy's purpose, since some ef the missilea came against us Churchill told me she would pay 23,000 of them beyond repair, the missiles might otherwi:s fallen in open country within 24 hours, and over a visit. She found the battery But although London was the have
in action One bomb had 3,000 were to follow in the
passed over it and demolished worst sufferer, the casualties and beyond the capital.
dam
orced well outside sprecu next five weeks.
house in the Bayswater Road. he
Parts of Sussex its
The
General Ofeer Commanding Campaign Indeed in all other
ON July & I unfolded to the could do very much beter with
campaigns previously, the fighters had much more success thon the guns. By the second week of July, however, Gen. Pile and some disstrning experts come to the ccnclusion that the guris
to the House of Commons, many cut undue prejudice whose
fighters the constituencies were feeling success of the the strain of the attack, the batteries were moved on to the
action preparation and
the coast,
Their Radar for are control taken since Government had the Metropolitan early in 1948. At any safe, no would have more scope, and it were aimed at Tower Bridge, fell RING In
arca was therefore stopped, one could say that we had bees would be safer to use the fused 'shells which the over country- and by June 21 the guns had caught by surprise. There was proximity
now far and wide side from Hampshire to Suffolk, moved to the advanced line mi no complaint. Everyone saw we were
One landed near my home at
The Flying Buinb, as we came
While my wife and daughter 4o call it,
"Bamb Was named "V.1" by were standing together on the and Kent, popularly known as Alley" because they lay black Mater.
hoped with grass they saw a tiny since he
the од line of route, paid a heavy out, of the clouds, some reason-at
only object dive
the first of a series
es of terror which looked as if it would fall toll: end weapons which German research very near Downing Street,
My car had gone to collect the tatters, and the driver was, as
and
Iry
bombs. although
power
arriving from
*
which was driven round by the going on. There was a direct UR Intelligence had accurately at some bombs would escape would be done to defent this and 600 Bofors guns had to be
and
would provide. To Londoners, the doodlebug", the new weapon was soon known
the
01 buzz tonished to ace all the passersby
bombs flew at heights which we made easier by our hopes of a bomb,' from
the striden; sound in Parliament Square fall flats Westerham, killing, by a cruel, the North Downs. Many of the just had to lump it, an ordeal America.t of its engine, which was a jet their faces. There was a dull mischance, 22 homeless children at first thought would be awk- successful advance in Normandy. of new and ingenious design. explosion near by and everyone and five grown-ups collected in ward for the guns, rather too low
Arrangements had been made o their business. The a refugo made for them in the
for the heavies and too high for The bomb flew at speeds up went
to evacuate mothers and children the others; but fortunately
deep. shelters THE an hour, and at homb had fallen on the Guards woods. to 100 miles
proved possible to use the heavies and to, open the.
new deployment was a heights around 3,000 feet, and it Chapel at Wellington Barracks.
vost undertaking, and it was against lower targets than we which had hitherto been held in enrried about a ton of explosive. A spacial service for which a
reserve, and I explained that had previously thought.
executed with the most praiac- In
human It was steered
of distinguished a magnetic large number
everything We had
of course. M
worthy speed. Nearly 400 heavy realised, was officers its range
of the Brigade, active compass, governed by a small propeller and retired, had gathered, was
novel onslaught; but I ended on both fighters and guns. and
moved
re-alted. Throo of telephone cable Abusand miles of hit.. The
fore old six months before these we tried to parry by a vast a note which seemed appropria's whole building was passage of the bomb through the
second.
were laid; 23,000 men and demolished air.
and how the missiles would perform, balloon barrage deployed to the to the mood of the hour."
and the There can be no question of women were moved, nearly
Guardsmen, including but we had not found it easy to south and southeast of London. 200
campaign
allowing the slightest weaken- vehicles of Anti-Aircraft Com- many distinguished officers, and prepare fighter and gun defences In the course of the their relations and friends were of adequate qually. Our fustest the barrage did in fact catch
ing of the battle in order to mand travelled 3m miles in a
In four lea week. stripped and 232 bombs, each of which would left killed er maimed under The
in scale Injuries specielly
diminish have fallen ruins. This was a tragic event. boosted, could barely almost inevitably WHEN the propeller had re- 1 was still in bed working at my overtake the speedlest missiles. somewhere in the London arco.
The To make things worse.. Nor had we been content with V volved n number of times boxes when my wife return entary Bred the bombs lai salvoes, defensive measures. The original les," 30 in number, from which corresponded to the dis- "The battery has been in petion."
"end the Guards in the hope of suturating our "akl sites," tance of
the heenid, London from
defences. Our normal procedure which the bombs were to have launching site. the controls of Chapel is destroyed."
In France, had was too slow, been launched I gave directions at once that of "scrambling" the missile were tripped to ninkr
been heavily attacked by our The blast the Commons sheld retire again to earth. it dive
1943 bombers from December House. damage was all the more vicious to the Church
whose
•In Drder of intensity—4 Onwards
and
substantially because the bomb
structure cifere. usually ex- modern steel
bombs
per 100 acres the order eliminated. But despite all our before penetrating the somewhat more protection than
tode different; first the City of
Penge, efforts, the enemy had succeeded ploded
the Palace of Westminster This
London area, and then ground. -
the assault from Deptford, Green In Launching Herinondasu. and This new form of attack im- Involved a lot of messages
wich, Camberwell, Lawisham, Stepney, Poplar, Lambeth, Bot new and less pretentious sites, posed upon the people of London rearrangement. We had a brief
and bombs were penetrating our a burden perhaps even heavier interlude in Secret Session, and
tersea, fitcham and Wandsworth.
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
HEN Lord Beaver- omaments during a radio play on a visiting brook kicked and her revenge
boy friend by ring him out of Nathaniel Gub the kitchen window,
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quite
it
kick when you
which, though the
they may Inflict
move to
the was completed.. few days after the re-
people and Stering on matr. combined-do-
Krievous
I change to some ex- tent the normal regular life fences destroyed as far fewer
because and industry of London, will bombs, mainly never stand belween the 'ghters were much
on their
the
.British nation and their duty the new ewitilan."""Pèred by
in the van of a viclerious and movement. avenging world.
But this setback did not last long. The guns soon got their grip, and the results, improved fapidly.
By
It may be a comfort to come to feel that they are sharing in the end of August, not more no small degree the perils of
thon one bomb. In seven got our soldiers overseas, and that through to the London area. The the blows which fall on them "record bag" was on Aug. 28. diminish there which in other when 94 bombs approached our forms would have smitten coast and all but four were des- our fighting men and their troyed. The balloons''caught allies. But I am sure of one two, the fighters 23 and the guns thing, that London will never 05. The VI had been
mastered. be conquered and will never The Germans, who keenly fati; and that her renown, watched the performance of Qur triumphing ever every ordeal, guns from across the Channel, So, from Dr Gubbins you will top of the new waistilne, and and very short
will long shine among men. toon learn the bitter truth about very mad
We now know that Hitler had the access of our artillery. They were completely bewildered by your imaginary allments and women will give the illusion of
walking lampshades thought that the new
ne solved the mystery the dark, secret places of your small
ew weapon had still would be "decisive" in fashion when their launching sites were horrid little mind. From Old wearing hals.
ing his own distorted version of overwhelmed in the first wock of
Even his pence,
inliitty September by the victorious and of the terrible things that aro
same very pe
advisers, who were less obsessed rapid advance of the British and waistline, be than their master, hoped that Canadian armies from Normandy and you.
If the prophecies high Empire
that ginning at the top of the heat London's agony would cause to Antwerp. frighten you remember
that
short mad, tutor
diverted except AS Gubbins, jiko Beaver O.M.G, is normally 100 per cent ex A ̈ brook, was born under the wrong
women will wear large wide some of our armies to bo hats to give the illusion of less to a disastrous landing in the Pas in an attempt jo sign of Gemini and is influenced by Mercury,
Another messenger of the
came flying bulk. Very short, very fat, and de Calais
hide capture the launching siles. But still typing very mad women will
Hiko neither London nor the Govern- gods, he changes his mercurial over the rooftops,
themselves under hats mind about people and politics madly, was Peek-A-Boo, Gub-
bins' own social pest and fash- enormous soup plates and give ment flinched, and I, had keen almost every day.
the illusion of walking mush-able to assure Gen. Eisenhower
on June 18 that we would bear thereafter the ordeal to the end, asking for from, hombs
Moore Gubbins you will learn FOR SHORT, MAD, FAT
consider that Beaverbrook The Gemini Boys of pers to the world WOMEN. The
is such a little chap and Gubbins is only an inch and a half under 6ft,. and weighs 14 stones,
The kick was so powerful thut Gubbins landed on the other side of Fleet Street.
Beaverbrook has changed his mind about Gub-
Before
landfall mercurial making kleks were passed down by bing. Gubbins and his life partner, The Plucky Little Woman, fo Gubbins has changed many who relied on their
favours.
The P.L.W. started off by firing the milkman. When Gub-
"There's bins sald,
nothing wrong with his milk" the PLW. There was nothing replied wrong with your column."
the be
Gubbins then warned newsagent that, he would fired if bills were not presented every week, The P.I.W. wanted to fire the grocer, the butcher. the fishmonger, the baker
and
the entire town counell at the Utile seaside resort where we live,
Drunk with power we then held a directors' meeting on whether wo should fire our / alderly rotalner who has work- ed well for us for many years and never done us any harm,
She was saved by a major- By vote of two to nothing in her favour. But she will never know how nearly the poised axe
jon snoop.
Shc
who
rooms,
with a here landed
bruised and bump. Although hlsing away. She is one of the few mercurial mind about Beaver people in Fleet Street who loves brook. If Benverbrook knew writing. In fact, only death will stop her. This is what she says
shaken, she still went on bang- Funny Lord
about the new line for woman:
Fashion Note
1
YET another who has landed
the here is Lord Gubbins, eccentric peer who is known as though the last of the wits" many who do not appreciate his humour call him "the last of the twits."
no change In his strategy in ing France.
UR
LTHOUGH
the. Germana
irritated
Us
time to time with fly- launched from
aircraft, and with * fow
long-range bombs from Holland. the threat
all about 9,000 Insignificant. In henceforward bombs were launched against London, and about 2,400 got Our total civilian
U bombing attacks of
througword 0.184, killed and launching sites went on for 17,081 seriously injured.
Our Intelligence had played s
a time, but it was clear before the end of June that those were
Somebody once recorded in now poor targets. Bomber Com- vital part. The size and per-
OR TALL WOMEN, A his diary: "Lord G. the mand, anxious to share more formance of the weapon, and the
FOR
ig I
nowing
I was
smooth,
princess funniest storyteller ever effectively in relieving London, intended scale of attack, were they known to us in excellent time. "better ones; exhausted with sought
and they line with waist. beginning just heard.
found.
enabled our fighters to be The main were soon above the knee, giving the laughing."
ready. The launching -illusion of a shorter
fer the flying mado. legline.
New readers will be able to storage depota
altes and the storage caverns Begin- bambs in France now lay in delight. Very tall women will wear an shura this Veen lower, waistline, giving the ning next week, Lord. Gubbins's few large natural caverns around bombers to delay be attack and were found, enabling our Illusion of legs boginning Just storytelling-wlity, Irreverent, Paris, long
mitigate its violence. To all our above the ankles.
piquant, and often pointless mushroom-growers at St sources, many of whom worked and: sonto this paper.
len amid deadly danger, Leu d'Esserent You will be fascinated by his valley, was rated by the Germans knows to us, I pay my tribute. account of how Lord Gubbins to store 2,000 Sombs, and it had know
good Intelligenco aluno
will be published exclusively in / cone of these in the Olse whom will be for over un-
waistlines round was one of the arst 10 open {aúpplied ·70 ¦ peroènt of all the BUYN - DOET
Early in
.usolcak.
fell upon her devoted grey head what Gubbins is thinking about A, smooth, Sowing princess which Alfred the Great burned 1000 spa tying bomba made absoluto by, the victory of
as she hummed happily at the him at this moment he would
sink?
be chocked.
ta
American
Icast
FOR
WOMEN SHORT iligh Empire walsiline, giving the illusion of a longer leg line. Very short women will wear their
Jung. giving the illusion his ancestral home to visitor bombs Ared in Jun their necks. This is Gubbins', Ides of
a nob, and once July it was utterly destroyed by Fighters, bombers, gun, bal- of legs beginning just under the at a bob the devil cat-drawn by—shoulders.
sold to a gullible American an Bomber Command, using some loons, scientists Civil Defence, old boking-Un (discarded by of their heaviest bombs to crush and all the organisation that lay Gubbins,
as the tin in the roof in.
rated Another, ted to
bohind them, had each played FOR TALL, MAD WOMEN. Lady Gubbing)
smashed by their parts to the full, It was a We know groat and concerted' defence, How he saves money by line with a waist beginning be the cakes, low the ankles, giving the im- shooting bluebottles instead int at
in thi
this our armles in France... pression of no legs at all. Very
to shoot were retrievably buried Moreover Gomints have dual mad women, believing they of going to Scotland
all
TTHON there, and the Germans were Di August. personalities. And Gubbins has have no legs, will be unable to grouse on the Glorious Twelfth one cavern. Lorton was spared. several,
walk, while very tall and very
who forced to use, bombs of a typo Lord Gubbins, mad. women will wear belt
*
which they -had.:"previously Among these personalities round the ankles : and hop fives, in semi-retirement in the
unsatisfactory. Walmer District, condemned as also kicked across the street of about, looking like giant non- Deal and
Our hot
bombers
did not achieve. She was told that in future ink are Dr Gubbins, the Flect gains competing in a one-legged over tires of a crack ho-made she would have to live on Ice" Street, quack and phoney pay- race,
many summers ago and repeats their success without loss. Of all. our forces they were the cartest Iandle cod instead of rabbit and, chiatrist, Old Moora
́ad naitseam: N Hver, though she would get four the ancient and discredited FOR SHORT, MAD WOMEN. On a hot day he went into a god again the Rying They hod. aflocked ounces of liver as compensation astrologor and Mal Manger, -Very high Empire waistlines bar, ordered a pint of wallop, bombs. for loss of office.
the world's worst clief, who has begirming at the top of was and said: "It's a Doni Walmer research centres and factories in
local Germany, and launching sites and (World", "Copyright, enge As the expected twice
as enten more disgusting meals of, head, giving the illusion of legs today," Sycophantic much she had her revenge on his own preparation than any beginning under the ears. Very people, who dearly love a lord, supply depols in França. By the Reproduction, even partial V ur by breaking a couple of man alive,dai kalunggal ya mad women will wear a hat on haven't stopped-laughing gatekjend of the campaign nearly 2,000 any language, strictly
Finally Cubbins decided fire Lottle the Devil Cat (you will hear more about her later) from her idle and luxurious life and sheltered occupation.
Gubbins
Witty
`shglia," which:"\/soene denones to explodeda.. they passed near the vikarpet, l'omee Camperose to jise over land
if they mûved the / targes badty. they did not explode, until they „Jell” to earth,"
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