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Third Article
YESTERDAY I described.
the organisation, and problems of the Bomber Com- · mand. To-day let us consider its men-and its methods.
They vary, of course, very much with the targets to be at. tacked and the amount of pro- tective defence the aircraft ex-. pect to meet.
"Brief
MEN
bomber crews beforethey leave for a raid on Germany.
IN THE
BOMBERS
By Air Commodore
P. F. M. Fellowes, D.S.O.
Normally, it is true to say that the best average results, viewed from an economic stand- point-that is. to say, loss of crews and aircraft-are obtain- ed by bombing from consider- able heights, and by sending in position; and a wireless operator. many bombers almost simul-
Hongkong Telegraph.taneously.
Tuesday, June 3_1941.
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THE LIE DETECTOR
LITTLE has been heard here recent years of the "lie detector." British conservatism
11F
Airthentic BELLOW news for WHIFFS a likely to be the reason. In
FELLOW BELLOWS another month has "Gone. with the Wing"
keep your cars and eyes open for the SCORE , and other airy topics of interest which will appear in the first few days of next month. BLOW-in with a BELLOW-feeling and help to fill the WINDBAGS.
A WORD-in-the-EARS of SNUFFS.
Don't be a SNUFF
HELP the R. A. F.
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America, however, the use of the instrument is said to have spread very much in the last ten years. From the police the practice has been adopted by many businesses, and, it is said, with astonishingly successful results. Dishonesty has been
detected
prevented, and
دین
There is a gun-layer for each gun You will then discuss with your gunlayers the different action you
Once in the air, you all feel you are set for the job, and probably look forward with great anticipation to the moment when you arrive over your target to minke your gesture to the enemy!
That over, and on the way home, you are able to relax and partake of the refreshment you have taken with you.
Homeward
The pilot has before him at his will expect them to take under dif right and his left hand an immense fering conditions of attack, number of controls and instruments, They will know exactly the man- The result here is that the The navigator has his own com- oeuvres you will make to avoid defence is much confused, and partient-chart table, chronometer, enemy fighters, and you will know the chances of collision or meet- and the dome from which he can exactly how they intend to deal. This question of refreshment a
with enemy fighters.
really very Important, With the ing a friendly bomb in mid-air take his sights on the stars.
The wireless operator has all his
long flights-ten hours and upwards are much less than the chances
-which are now continually under- of being damaged by accurate controls, his directional finding loop, If you are going to be the wireless taken by our bombers--it is of real carphones, sending keys, and so on. operator you will make quite sure importance that all concerned should In his special compartment,
of exactly what is expected of you have a little food and drink before.
anti-aircraft fire.
Checking Up
་
on
However, we by no means
The gun-layers sit in their power-In every possible contingency.
they undertake the strenuous job of adhere to only 'one system of controlled turrets, strapped into
their You will also, of course, see that relocating and landing bombing.
their seats. Their eyes peer out into all your instruments are in perfect aerodromes. the night; they have the coldest and It may be that, from the point most boring job of all, except in
working condition.
A science which has only recently of view of disturbing manufac moment of action or when reporting
You will check all your data and developed is night photography from ture, it is necessary to send over the effect of the bomb bursts. you will find out if any new radio the alr.
stations have been set up since your aircraft throughout the night. It is the rear gunner who is best last trip.
Or, again, a target may be placed to do this last job, and it is selected which it is possible to his report, very largely that the
accuracy of what has been accom- discuss with your pliot exactly the attacking a target, can be very close- surprise, by an unexpected plished depends. method of approach. In that. These great aircraft, when they given his position, adopt low bombing methods dropping their bombs, cannot turn case, it is well worth while to bave run on their line, and are
with delayed-action bombs.
Training Counts
of the attack.
We have now attained a vory high standard in this art, the result If you are the navigator, you will being that the reports of pilots, after procedure you are going to follow by checked by night photographs, and how often he will expect to bo They themselves actually take these photographs at the moment at which their bombs are impacting on will run through all your their targets.
You
in time to enable, the pilot or the instruments, etc., and make sure you
The control of the Bombing Com- navigator actually to see the effects have everything at your finger tips.
mand needs a very delicate but firm If you are to be one of the gun- touch at Headquarters, as the-of- layers you will satisfy yourself as to fensive spirit has to be maintained That is why the rear gunner's re- the condition of your gunsights and at its highest pitch and yet without The dropping of bombs ac- port is so important.
mountings, and go through all your the feeling that the splendid fellows tests and firing procedure. curately can be achieved only
who-carry out this offensive are be- after a very long period of flying over heavily-defended enemy The second pilot will act in co- in human beings, must be recog- ing driven beyond that that which, training.
In approaching a target; or
in
"They're Off!"
•
_It_is_quite-evident that...wo- pre fortunate in our commanders, and their higher direction.
country, straight courses are to be operation in all his duties with the nised. avoided. It is only when an air first pilot. The temptation,-when-under-
"Terafl ̄is flying "a, straight"course that very heavy anti-aircraft fire, anti-aircraft can hope to secure a
"Before proceeding on your bomb- not to carry dut peace training bit.
ing fight, you will have received. This is proved by the splendid procedure for bomb dropping Join the FELLowship of tHE BELLOWS and honesty has been vindicated,
However, for a period of between complete instructions as to your ob- and cager offensive spirit which is must be very high indeed. But 30 seconds and a minute, it is es- jective and your procedure."
universally prevalent in the Bomber Command. The frequency with which with long training this pro-sential to Ay a straight course if
bombs are to be dropped accurately. be in your
At the selected time, you will all dishonesty has been revealed iscedure becomes automatic.
aircraft, your engines In the early days, when they had This Is the real period of danger. somewhat disheartening to those
will be started and you will take up to go over continuously; and drop Even under great stress our who believe in human perfecti- bombers manage to adhere to pilot is free to turn away and carry Naturally, these take-offs,
Once the bombs are dropped, the your allotted place for the take-off, leaflets, this Command wore a dif- ferent aspect. · As – soon' as bomb- on a dropping was allowed, the whole bility. It would seem that with these methods and this ae- out manoeuvres to avoid damage by blacked-out aerodrome at night, place lit up...
have to be very carefully organised the great majority of men and counts for the remarkably ac- anti-aircraft action.
to prevent collision between theso- But before that time, and during great and valuable aircraft, especi women the fear of detection is curate results they achieve.
his straight run, he tunes himself up ally in taxying to the point where the most potent deterrent to dis-. The wise policy of our Bom- to disregard all risks and to fulfil they stort their heavily loaded run. honesty. But an element of ber Command has always been his job to: the best that is in him. final improvement may be found to use only fully trained crews. In the statement that once a person undergoes the test of the
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detector he is careful to avoid
doing anything that the instru- ment might disclose, for he knows that discovery is almost
certain.
If the crime und lying detector could be used as an Instrument of war, what a sensation the world would experience! Put a Hitler or a Goebbels under the ordeal and the mechanism would suffer a atrain which might put
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it out of action. The only Tel. 2127s question would be which was Tel. 29325 the greater liar. One of Hitler's wwwmost prominent characteristics has been said to be an almost
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| unbolievable capacity for telling falsehoods. Still Goebbels would probably bear away the palm. For while Hitler lies only at intervals, Goebbels is engaged in lying all the time.
The experiment, however, might be a fallure, for it is said that: thoi really –
Criminal and llar anfirmed
ardened that they show scarcely any reciable rea to the test.
Once away from heavily defended It is here not in the produc- switch in "George," the mechanical areas, if the pilots so wish, they can
tion of aircraft that we meet pilot who will take charge of the
the bottle-neck in expansion. flying.
much worse bottle-neck of this But Germany must have a
Night Flying
To-morrow PURPOSE OF THE KITE BALLOONS
BATTLE OF INITIALS
There is now only one anxiety be- sort because of the very large fore the crew (provided they have
War-time agencies and anti-aircraft fire but a method of crew losses she sustained last not been badly hit, in which case romantically inclined Britishers saying Fondest Love and Kisses."
you can never be certain-that' either
Equally confusing are the breed your tanks or your oil system may are lying for top honours in a viations adopted by the army and by have been damaged).
war-time agencies. When A. C. L. battle of initiais. Both have Joe Doakes (Aircraftman 1st Class)
Beasoli.
According To Plan
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Instruments and everything}
G.O.C.C. he is very likely to wonder,
ng animal mineral
the
It is: Will the weather, be clear for adopted auch an array of is told to report to the P. A. to the Fortunately, our Air Staff had their return to their aerodrome? realised this danger. They did not
seemingly meaningless letters whether he
ho should be To bring home realistically to symbolising otherwise wordy for something anima
on the lookout attempt any wildly foolish: plan of yourself the job of the bomber crew,
Vegetable...
this using up our precious crews on
array of
of initials plthily sums up heavyfisted day offensive, such as it imagine yourself as one of the crew phrases and titles, that only the has been, has been conducted in a of a night bomber going off on a experienced sensor can expect to Personal Assistant to the General scientifically economie-way,
Omcer Commanding-in-Chief.. decipher them all. Our bombers have been sent out If you are the pilot, you have Initials which dot epistles Very probably A. C. I. Doakes
will be entrusted with the delivery. to do this work in small numbers, soused yourself that your ens penned by members of the of the D.-I. O's, which are the Dally Their Instructions have been not to your
armed forces are frequently Routine. Orders. proceed unless they can find cloud else, are in perfect condition. -
garnished by initials which have cover through which they can com- Now, you know that you have got become so famillar that they no
navigate over to take off on a pitch-black night, enemy country.
with nothing, or very little possibly longer mystify the censor. a fare at the end of the aerodromo This system we adopted in tieto assist you to take off. carly days of the war. Now, after over a year of war, the Germans Then you are going to plunge into up picture of cipher messages re Forces Women's Auxi have realised the wisdom of it and the air over a perfectly blacked-out vealing troop dispositions when his WV S., Women's. Auxillary Ser-
country,
keen eyes light up W. At In ATS Auxiliary Territorial Ser
paratively safely
have adopted it themselves,
few of the other official abbre viations are as follows: NEED
F.AN.Y., First Auxillary Nursing Yeomanry, przy
ute does not immediately conjure..." W.A.AF., Women's Auxiliary Air.
tions as 'C.
such comblitvice. Hitherto, we have been discussing To be able to do this safely, you stead he is likely to call to mind vice the bomber in an abairnet way, but will reassure yourself before start-Romeo's romantic speeches beneath AAFL Navy, Army, and Air each of these great craft is handled ing that you can fly perfectly on the balcony, for C. Kwhile gen- Force Institute. by a team whole co-operation must your instrumenta. Indeed, you must be of the highest order.
do this in justice, to your country rally thought to lack the passion- DMI Director of Military Intel-
inspiring polish of the great Bard, 1gence and to your crow.
means Consider Yourself Kissed
PULSHAN
The Crew's Work
You will run through all your technique in regard to approach to Each man in this crew-there may the target, and check the cale be from five to ten must be very tions that have to be highly trained
dage, height. share the lying again plank the codras... In some
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