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WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR
The Battle of Britain itas started.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1954.
A TELEPHONE CALL..
At Coltishall, near Norwich.
Squadron Leader Bucing the legless commander of 242 Squadron.
But they are in 12 Air Vier- Marshal Leigin Group, and it is It Groups Imitle. Mallory tells Haider that he kannot send thent in unti) 51 from Call To them
in being to tear his mea lata the fight.
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of live yo
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morning Nopti 30 the phone dispersals
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And Bader is fighting
the Battle of Britain
in.
his three
in
suddenly stalled and spun of again,
and He pulled out searched the sky but the enomy had vanished.
That was the greatest day of the battle. In the two ITWARE fights that day the pilots of the five squadrons of the Wing claimed 52 enemy destroyed
WHERE SHEIKS RELAX
By John Carter
Beirut. CCOUNTS don't matter
About this time" he designed and a further eight probables. in Belrut, capital of the
the
twelve
Conference
Vis
Lebanon, little Paris of the Middle East. Nobody knows how many millions of pounds are spent on pleasure
LEIGH - Mallory in this fabulous boom town.
called
Pull of the Are of the kill, he church, and climbed rich
Persely.
share Squadron's over the the squadron emblem-a figure 242 wuthwert Aircraft ten o'clock koked for others, and exultation squadrons
Chilled; in the
London; ignored the of fliter being kicked in little mirror fringe of eyes a 210 poked its "angels twenty" too, climbing breeches by a flying boot label- cut a metal above lim
speeks at 22,000 led 242. Wen above the rudder, sluiting till they were
tegt over the reserviors at template of and the round Slates, still climbing.
crews-painted it on the noses of And then a few miles in front all the Hurricanes. the sky glinted and aroun; the
in Ille flm coming like # spot focus the dots appeared, two great swarms of them cut- HT fing cross fast in front, hrad.ng for London. Aboul the sune height. (Just
weli he'd Ignored
Nouth Weald-Horn-
The bombers were in thy lines of four and six abreast, it is was eunting the uses; 14 mes
behind them and above
He sleep-turned hard, fund alut 30 more aeroplanies that
his siwalder saw the 1:0 Above ave oked like 10 Bghteis
truket beeling after, white streaks of them still more. Over The Hurrcation were where the beer ficking from its oe past The Hurricane turned THIS swinging his fall
1 and the 119 divid and Devan from the wandt
Vatrend Lader has wing Weg ut the sun, a 1990 so' Marta nght of the LED hack The 734721
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In each like sixty-odd 11 Lilled 11 Who RANK this it last the
home ake a bat out of helt and bunch,
He wheeled tỷ cul them off, i was lipeless.
still chab ng. swinging higher
tached Fitts and
m the
1x 11:1 action of
Bullets squirted
DLACK
He was rartied to'ge that he w a down to tjóða rest, sweaking
the still, cool dawti 15. Woodhall of September serambled the five squadrons of 12 Group Wing.
In the air, his measured vojce "H, Douglas. About 40 ban- Wil dt hending for London. you patrol Chaffterbury-Grave-
"O.K., Woodle." The morning sun stil ny in
and! mahcast,
the
ine
rang une day
and said, "Douglas.
we're having fighter
And nobody
Care. Ú
to
out
all
ut Air Ministry thrush we've learned from the recent day-light battles, I want you to come with me."
acema to
conference Whisky is £10 A bottle. The thing to give a favour- ite belly-lancer from one of the exotic cabarets is a new Cadillac with more gadgets
the than
one she already
come For to Beirut
the
between the Swarm bombers were going for London When he saw the braided sleeves | sheiks and emirs of the de-
How with the M42
At the Al Ministry, Bader followed the bulky figure into
quiet, carpeter! conference | OWIA. room and felt a twinge of alarm
round the long luble, Not he
where to kow
look for roun
air vice-marstrul. sert of lands in the remote MAN below the Nearing 23.000 feet, Ive
new and dry-mouthed, breathing hard calling 19 Squadron urgently to
the head the Chief of the Air wealth around. and over their saw black puffs staining the sky cited most of them; at south to splash their n though he had just run in a climb higher
ahead, and the rest. Line almost straight
Charles Portal, sir He pulled skeply up, back fails. "utet
of stuffy Dowding looking more We're going somewhat below and ahead the fight, but the light was atern, line astern,
the flak almost instantly through the middle."
The mathematics were good- The main
the enemy, drilled black siding towards the naked About Ave miles away bud
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PART 11
BRICKHILL
40
Stuff,
Over
Already 110 night clubs and 14 first clous hotels are pulling in their share of the black wealth in the heat of the sea- jeval town and in the eveniNES
coolness of straggling suburbs, 3,000 feet up in the foothills of Biblical Mount Lebanon
Cashing In
da te mi away to the right Buder agun "Red and yellin
Ian astern, the astern.
High-salaried Western vil men. Fan and feet above he
Kw S
Park,come, too, relaxing on local leave the awarin <
4
flies Cruggy than ever, Keith
Sholto Douglas, John Slessor, alter nunths without drinks or followed by the last five Hunt-
Philip Joubert de la Ferte. And night life in rigorously Moham- now admong the The sky that had been so Iull 4
and he wondered twenty tay dev'roved for the
ely.
was empty mure 119 fighter 8.
less of four Burricanes and two DX. POHON NAN
JU, 88s and Dorniers, himself, a squadron leader. No medan Saudi-Arabia, !!! Oghter pass
iers, other fighter pilots. In September, 1940, only
South and East Lebanon have haras gust of tage stink
ከነናዊ right, that a mass of rugs the mathematics matt grdd,
Swing.bg
Buder sat quietly, hands In cool hills, elear waters from the The spur of the teneat a
Ile down to come in diving. The
the blue of the hin
Bacter ta attrall eld vanish in second? - conpuiston lirik
was not satisfled. to 12 the tile of Plants of take
at heart lisagt am the blood sang lap when the discussion started winter shows, Group K.
fighter farmu-Mediterranean and every kind dive right into
rats clear and on the size of Hucknall, unct tok Leigh and the mind
tions and the Idea of going to of lush fruit. So the wealth tremi that sug formation and break from the slant
the new oilficids comes here. e tuned his
BALTS OF vielny.
"Sir, if we'd only had sharp. Mallory
attack the enemy at the source when he was building
This is reflected in the musha- his Lip formations
fine dual Pus the
de rocaning hotels and Culala.
currlageways. In: "l'd Shell Douglas cut like to heur whini Squadron Lender Bader has to say about lending big formations."
The eyes were looking at him and he felt suddenly vulnerable.
Pet
were {deus
tumbling through his head, jostling each ether into confusion. "I've got to put the fighter pilot's point of view. It probably hasn'
Quick to cash in on the boorn, happened like this before." He
the Lebanon Government plans said clearly, looking at Portal: ever at *་་་་་ in his thigh, he
"We've been learning, віг, to attract and legalise gambling By 10 am, the it ng app
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exactly what you gentlemen in nationalised casinos. the 190 degrees fed on Hurricane - <{¥a£1{Rx«${L! LA
Bader Bok his hater to Inch stute
learned in the last war" (that Losi
260,000 your alone, of the North Wealt
"As a MANA.
aratter
wealthy pleasure-seekera came Firstly, rantic! a corner
McKnight ahea Glumpse
furt, sir. f we'd had more air
were darting. He ralled urgently: was a crafty start) .. -Moting t
kot familiar Beli and Bader and The sun hung us the gh of the hit it
the to Beirut. They came from Egypt that the chap who's sky me the starboard wmag and
2141 Rhocked seorang
Sandy, watch those 109'."
controls the battle, and Iraq, Saudi and Kuwait, and he knew what he would do if the
and three 1 trail we
Other
was going to talk to you me lunging ahead,
101 CONTI
"OK, chum, I can see them." height
out of from the bitstering deserts whene vent the mat least 1
The loud was
grup have about that," Leigh-Mallory said.
lender of Lane.
19 especially if he comes Pin de weling in test fear the ston!
two 1 If
roore Sandy behind, he squadros in
sun; secondly, that the chap not so long ago they lived rough- Just
yout PILVE
handle Squadren, was already wheeling who tires very close is the chaply, among the nomad tribesmen. y4144 thumbed the hutin d almost bas standing by like as. Would
the Spitfires up into the fighters. wh
Some bring their wives and thema? instantly, as the bullets squc text, be possible for us all to take quadrons, could
Fue uff logether?"
squadrons. Sixty
"Break 'em up, yelled Bader who knocks them down; thirdly, Five
servants, and most important, it is much totinues of barefoot the "How would you handle them
Even Bader was and swept, ring, through
Who to put up n economical
rarely leave Wang Hats, lossomed at the
the 111
Lep-Matory fighters"
Juxury and air- front rank of the bombers. He more The collected himself: starttec rting to long Blanes as
studded intereslett.
and veered behind a hundred streraft against a hun-conditioned juillet Bght stars
up When
twelve than
against a conditioning is a luxury hero Yes, sir. HIS was no caser ligeled kvar.
left, dred Bd be easy
of hotels like the eight-storey The blood was fred, tear, nerve
Baxter suid, we'd break up anyway. I'd have big Darnler turning away
again. A dash hundred,
Dornier's the
"I know we can't always put Le Capitole or the 90-bedroom to be up- and musele taut and the past three squadrons,"
"If I'd had three squadions this the Spitures on top to hold fired and fired
against equal numbers
the Ambassador up in the hills. Di brain racing be an enguse in humselt
have been my 10s and a mass of furti. burst
La starboard engines, and dome and Germans because their air force
visitors leave Other ponied with nothing the capsule of the cockpit which afternoon agandang "
Just S
as easy to get them to the ranes below
and their trolle's
words, he bore him through this torrent.
Hell, ancraft of broken forma is bigger than ours if necessary their wives behind. They rent have been worry about on their tails could black smoke spewed from il. Alsave, to the night, andther iin tuens,
I crucity a puck of bombers. degrees Alka swang 30
free ama
tung darting everywhere in the we'll fight one against a thou- £100-a-week villas, izure power tuu
semed to
for miss the enemy! was shawls curling out of a stall-
M Milo
blurred and flashing confusion. sand-but surely we can manage chauffeurs tour the night clubs Loigh - Mallory west. Might
Bader
to put sixty aircraft against a looking 400 yards away - luce, and he rected his nose up think the Chung b
kormations and understand so well that these bombe!
in front
instead The usually obeyed a cont eller
of cubarets. after it, closung hast
cloud couple of hundred the plunge and told him break them up, and the quicker took Southwest of North Weald a
Even the big-money stars of another Dornier seeking A budov yards behind, the better.
controller's
only one squadron of twelve." disobeying
he was catching it rapidly and thin utrother,
he Middle East entertainment, Chon all be a free about Aliant,
cover! ball, and seconds a mass of little dats grew fired for three servinds, the 119
the lighters will instructions, noi to clear himsel!,
when his eye caught a Spitare
world are finding it profitable to Week later zeal. MIN. but with to British rocked fore and aff and he fired
above and just prosely Using have the metvantage
diving steeply
"do" these; too many
a boom-town the deાફ. expounding his
The Pires flew off the wing
ahead. It happened fast.
Beirut. The skin tuigted all over as the again,
the starboard In the same near
engine
The formation leaders might he
Spitüre dived straight into
pilot blood pulsed and Icter
make t mistake and miss the the middle of it and the Dornier moment be shovest his thrille Flames suddenly burst along be An ahme “
enemy altogether,"
Durat Erboard wing and the 110 was
Puggested
of flame split and Leigh-Mallory, theofthe Bang down blazing.
his men waited in a restless And waited, knot, nearby. From Ops. they heard that the Lauftwaffe was storminy
+la+1 125 over Southern
but still 11 Group vall. At a sent al quarter to five the telephone rang and Bader grableed it
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PAUL
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have
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New idea
EGH-MALLORY said he would
think about Next
it.
JL.
evening
telephoned
he and
heighF
The controllers are doing Dhat. sir. They can't help
s inuecurate
about
Date:
Bader.
New
Next
High out of a vell of clou near the sun little grey sharks lear
in a
behind
triore
went
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talent for private
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not have
of these 1. Egyptian hia screen dancer Tahya Carloka, theories, and as be Her
Her first night at the warmed to them he night club was something even already wrapped its broken wings round
self-con- the fighter.
forgot
could -Hollywood looked Sweating, Bader
sciousness and the rivalled others. A Dornier was spinning
voice, greW moro Hundreds of shiny now down to one side, dragging
more commanding.
BercectiedÍ American taxis advantages plume of name and smoke, and He delivered himself of a good, along the ten miles of hairpin
Buder
As
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later
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the
the stuff
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the Jasmine
sides of tho
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the You think "You outweigh the risks?"
he watched mah jumped
and sat down road te Aloy Hill suburb "Tomorrow I want you to try "Yes, str. I do."
was out of it. His parachute opened terse homily
abruptly. He must have said he
the night club. Drivers took this large formatum scheme of
eniphatic.
instantly too soon--the canopy
was non-ruce-circuit chances to get their "So du 1," Leigh-Mallory said, We've got 13 and 310
bread
and too much: everyone into
blaze
time to discussion taxes there in
get a as committal right shrivelled Take 1 put this up to the Squadrons at Duxford,
nothingness in
continued. and see how people and meantime you might
Outside A week later he received a sheet of flame.
club. your chops there
us well
on, with
the your curry you get on leading the whole
Wing Two hours
marked "Secret" It said Cadillac-all the intest modelu it seems to work. Не
decided were parked was scrambled again to patrol letter the squadroth for Leigh- uded that he was also spreading North Weald,
With
and Bader led that Air Council had that
wherever there were two bumper under Mallory's decisive ways, Bader Bader's gospel of breaking up them through gap in the
10,000 feet, Ank squadrons on one airfield they blooms on both spent three days practising take enemy formations by diving into clouds. At off with the three squadrons and their midst. Bader had done it bursts ahead, and in moments were to practise battle flying as Damascus road. leading them in the air.
the first time on the spur of
that he saw the bombers; about 40 a wing and be proficient as soon
possible.. There followed Jampacked Ligh-Mallory
down to moment of anger from watch them
practise, and said: moment was born a new tactical of them, some 4,000 feet above as
tactics--it was
Inside, the club was jam "All right
enlis on you, take your teachings. Leigh-Maliory called ning risked again because they nader himself had found
tume method that was against all the the Hurricanes. Damn! Every details about recommended wing
100 tate.
packed. Every bill included 11 Group
acrambled were
and reported. whole team."
242 the "disintegration squad Throttle hard on, the thundering
On January I, Bader neatly bottle of whisky whether or not At Duxford again with three ron."
Hurricane had her nose steeply around Bader swashbuckled Another day of in-
lifted, nearly
hanging on her ruled off the year's flying in his the guests wanted it. The oven-
under the squading
Hine Ing gowns on the European and logbook and
Lebanese women were straight patient
About five as though he waiting.
A volce screamed: "109s be- wrote:
Since have from the Rue de la Paix. u'cicek Sector Ups. reported a step into the ring and knock out Propeller at about 100 m.ph.
But the clean stillness of the build-up of enemy aircraft over Joe Louls with one punch and hind"
242 Squadron (June) we without even bothering the Pas de Calais.
His exuberance, "For change.
Over his shoulder the yellow hands 1940. the Bater Fang Woodhall,
splaners were diving on them have destroyed 47 enemy air-desert, was never far off. Eagle- he utterly ignored
sleep craft confirmed for the loss of faced men of the Saudi-Arabian Christ's sake let's get off in the way
the and he yelled as he
Around five pilots killed in action and desert, the new oil, kings,
at the was contagious catch thereon the way danger.
and turned, "Break up!" infected every other pilot, him the sky was full of wheel- one killed diving out of cloud, their bowllderment
was Morale
extraordinary.
and 109s. A The squadron has been award- Western world's idea of pleasure. Hurricanes Soon Woodhall; rang back.
Stoildly they sat smoking their communal "Bombers heading in Scramble He loved the battle and talked yellow spinner was sitting be ea 1 b50 and. 2. DFC«,"
narbees, watching and thought tactics, fascinated hind his tall, and as he yanked
the WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED
dancers, showing no And than in the alr "Hallo, by them, Insensitive to fear, he harder back on the stick an
enthusiasm. leach for the Sky" by Paul}
lossed Their purse-holders Dougins.
they're never had what was known as abroplane shot by, feet away. "Looks like
the others.
published by handfuls of notes. For above alone Domier Brickhill, i
on to the Will you the twitch" like heading for London.
it was heading for France, and he Collins.
waiters' trays without even patrol between North Weald For the Germans (hidden in
at the bill. Hornchurch, angels their aeroplanes) be conceived climbed and chased it a long an impersonal hate, but he way. Near the coast he was twenty."
Bader looked at the afternoon passionately loathed "those noro just about in range and fired Crosses a three-second burst, but the sun and thought: They'll swing planes with the black
their recoil of the guns slowed west and come out of the sun and swastikas dropping
till sho He forgot North Would-Horn- filthy bombs on my country." floundering Hurricane
fast as you can!"
and
JOHNNY HAZARD
ACCORDING TO THIS POSTER
OUR NEXT STOP IS ROMEIAT LAST I'VE HIT A STROKE OF
LUCK/...
CIOCUS
about to were
ке
ing
'I'LL GET TO MY, OBJECTIVE |EVEN EASIER THAN I THOUGHT?
NO ONE WILL THINK TO STOP
the
Next Wednesday Bader does not return
By Frank Robbins
Tooldust the spirit of the
high old days of the Klondyke and the Barbary Coast is allve again.
his situatio
Can Miguel