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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 nt- tacked and the amount of pro- tective defence the aircraft ex- pect to meet.
Normally, it is true to say that the best average results, viewed from an economic stand-
“Briefing-up” bomber crews beforethey leave for a raid on Germany.
MEN IN THE
BOMBERS
By Air Commodore
point-that is to say, loss of P. F. M. Fellowes, D.S.O.
crews and aircraft-áre obtain-
ed by bombing from consider-
Hongkong Telegraph.taneously.
Tuesday, June 3, 1941.
to deal
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
the enemy! your target to make your gesture to
That over, and on the way home, you are able to relax and partake of the refreshment you have taken with you.
Homeward
There is a gun-layer for each gun You will then discuss with your gunlayers the different action you able heights, and by sending in position; and a wireless operator. many bombers almost simul-. The pilot has before him at his will expect them to take under dlf-
right and his left hand no immense tering ronditions 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 partment--chart table, chronometer, enemy fighters, and you will know the chances of collision or meet- and the dome from which he can extctly how they intend
This question of refreshment. Is with clemy fighters. ing a friendly bomb in mid-air take his sights on the stars.
really very important. With the are much less than the chances The wireless operator has all his
long flights ten hours and upwards -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 ie usod, by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to
earphones, sending keys, and so on, operator you will make quite sure importance that all concerned should indicate news which is strictly copyright | anti-aircraft fire.
In his special compartment,
of exactly what is expected of you have a little food and drink before 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
You will also, of course, see that relocating and landing on their bombing.
their seats. Their eyes peer out into all your instruments are in perfect aerodromes. the night; they have the coldest and working condition.
A science which has only recently
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THE LIE DETECTOR
LITTLE has been heard here 171 recent years of the "lie detector." British conservatism s likely to be the reason. In 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 resulta. Dishonesty has been detected. or prevented, and
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It may be that, from the point most boring job of all, except in
Checking Up
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 radlo the air..
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 accuracy of what has been accom- en his report, very largely, that the surprise, by an unexpected plished depends. method of approach. In that
We have now attained a very high standard in this art, the result
discuss with your pilot exactly the attacking a target, can be very close- If you are the navigator, you will being that the reports of pilots, after procedure you are going to follow ly checked by night photographs. and how often he will expect to be They themselves actually take These great aircraft, when they given his position.
these photographs at the moment at case, it is well worth while to have run on their line, and arc adopt low bombing methods dropping their bombs, cannot tum
which their bombs are impacting on You will run through all your helr targets. with delayed-action bombs. in time to enable the pilot or the instruments, etc., and make sure you
navigator actually to see the effects have everything at your finger tipa marid needs a very delicate but firm
Training Counts
of the attack.
The dropping of bombs ac port is so important. curately can be achieved only
after a very long period of aying over heavily-defended enemy In approaching target, or In
་
"They're Off!"
The control of the Bombing Com-
-It-Is-quite-evident-that-we-are fortunate in our commanders, and their higher direction.
This is proved by the 'splendid and eager offensive spirit which is universally prevalent in the Bomber. Command.
If you are to be one of the gun- tough 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 mountings, and go through all your the feeling that the splendid fellows tests and Bring procedure.
who carry out this offensive are he ing driven beyond that limit which, The second pilot will act in co- in human beings, must be recog- training.
country, straight courses are to be operation in all his duties with the nised. The-temptation, when under avoided. It is only when an air- first pilot, -
craft is dying a straight course that very heavy anti-aircraft fire, anti-aircraft can hope to secure a
Before proceeding on your bomb- not to carry out peace training hit. procedure for bomb dropping
ing fight, you will have received However, for a period of between complete instructions as to your ob- must be very high indeed. But 30 seconds and a minute, it is es- jective and your procedure. The frequency with which with long training this pro-sential to fly a straight course.f
bombs are to be dropped accurately. be in your aircraft, your engines At the selected time, you will all dishonesty has been revealed iscedure becomes automatic.
In the early days, when they had This is the real period of danger, will be started and you will take up to go over continuously and drop somewhat disheartening to those Even under great stress our who believe in human perfectl-bombers mannge to adhere to pilot is free to turn away and carry
Once the bombs are dropped, the your allotted place for the take-off. icaiets, this Command wore a dif- ferent aspect. As soon as bomb- Naturally, these take-offs, on a dropping" was allowed, the whole bility. It would seem that with these methods and this ac- out monoeuvres to avoid damage by hacked-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-morrow---- to prevent collision between these 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
PURPOSE OF THE the most potent deterrent to dis-
The wise policy of our Bom- to disregard all risks and to fulfil they start their heavily loaded run.
KITE BALLOONS honesty. But an element of ber Command has always been his job to the best that is in him.
Once away from heavily defended | final improvement may be found to use only fully trained crews.
It is here not in the produc-areas, if the pilots so wish, they can switch in "George," the mechanical once & tion of aircraft-that we meet pilot who will take charge of the person undergoes the test of the the bottle-neck in expansion. flying.
in the statement that
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 and 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 strain which might put
Night Flying
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Nazis Trying To
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Trying To Flee From
Iraq: Oilfields Situation
•
Special to the "Telegraph”
LONDON, June 2 (UP).—Official quarters to-day confrm-
But Germany must have a much worse bottle-neck of this sort because of the very large core the crew (provided they have
There is now only one anxiety be crew losses she sustained last not been badly hit, in which case ed reports that all Germans have left Mosul, but it was declared you can never be certain that either that the situation, at Kirkuk oilfields was still uncertain. · It is your tanks or your oil system may not known whether there has been any damage to the oilfields liave been damaged).
or that hostile elements, either Germans or Iraqis are still – at
season.
According To Plan
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(UP)--The
It is: Will the weather be clear for Kirkuk. Fortunately, our Air Staff had their return to their aerodrome? realised this danger. They did not
To Form Cabinet attempt any wildly, foolish plan of To bring home realistically to BEIRUT, June 2 using up our precious crows. on yourself the job of the bomber crew, Baghdad radio announced to-day heavyasted day offensive, such as it imagine yourself as one of the crew that the Anglophile ex-Premier Jemit has been, has been conducted in a of a night bomber going off on a El Madial has been designated to scientifically economic way.
raid.
Anglo-Thai Oil Agreement
forma_now Iraqi Cabinet.
Middle East Communique BANGKOK, June 3 (Heuter),——— CAIRO, June 2' (UP) —To The That press is gratified by the
mission to Singapore. Bangkok
#! for the supply of fuel oll to Thailand.
our bombers have been sent out, If you are the pilot, you have! to do this antialled yourself that your engines, it out of action. The only lethal work, in small numbers, your instruments and everything day's General Headquarters success of Major Vilas Osthananda Tol. 21270 question would be which was proceed unless they can find cloud else are in perfect condition. communique states that the newspapers prominently feature Tel. 20325 the greater llar.. One of Hitler's cover through which they can com- Now you know that you have got situation at Baghdad is rapidly singapore dispatches announcing the paratively safely navigate over to take off on a pitch-black night, resuming, normal, while Basra is virtual conclusion of an agreement most prominent characteristics enemy country.
with nothing, or very litle-possibly calm. has been said to be an almost
This system we adopted In the fare at the end of the aerodromeRegarding Libya the communique carly days of the war. Now, after 10 assist you to take of
Bald, "In the Tobruk and Sollum area unbelievable capacity for telling over a year of war, the Germans Then you are going to plunge into our troops have again been active. falsehoods. Still Goebbels would have realised the wisdom of it and the air over a perfectly blacked-out In Abyssinia, in the Laker area, the
have adopted it themselves.
operations are continuing." probably bear away the palm.
country.
Nike According to the RAF: enemy Hitherto, wo have been discussing For while Hitlor lies only at the borrber. In an abstract way, but will assure yours isofort since the beginning of the year total To be able to do this safely, you planes destroyed in the Middle East intervals, Goebbels is engaged in each of these great craft is handled ing that you can fly perfectly on gure includes only these planes Foreign Office spokesman gave lying all the time..
by a team whose co-operation must your Instruments. Indeed, you must known to have been destroyed. The "Reuter, the unvarnished version of be of the highest-order,
to thila in justice to your country RAF. Iost 65 planes during day, what an Axis report has sensational- and to your crew palavik Alle of the pilots are safe,
are safe, Ly dramatised
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The experiment, however, might be a fallure, for it is said
You will run through all your
me spokesman said that technique: in regard to approach to BEIRUT, June 2 (UP)A report trallen officers, armed y Each man in this crew there may the target, and check the calculatron Baghdad states that the boy and carrying cameras, that the really confirmed
be from five to tenust be very lons that have to be made for win criminal and far are so hardened highly trained. that they show scarcely anyahare the flying hom
The plot, and the assistant
appreciable reaction to the test finns the course. In some crawl
second pilot drops the bombs: End? others the navigator
E.E.D.
dage, hel ht, etc..
King Faisel han returned by special the steain from the north Haschid "All The loca * You may run through all this with has drrived at
1 revolvers and/ Your, bomb-aimer to make bertsi
ther oficers (who?) havi
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