STOUT FELLER
'Where are you going with that axe?"
"I'm going to do a little deforesta- tion, Bertie. There's a tree outside I've taken a dislike to. I shall fell it toith one fell swoop."
"Rather carly in the morning for tree felling, isn't it?"
"The early toondcutter gets the first tree, you know. Besides it's
an ugly tree. There is something affemive about that tree. Gonse to think of it, it rather reminds me of you, Bertie."
"Well I must confess I didn't expect to see you chopping trees this morning and smoking a
whacking big black cheroot, Not after last night..."
"—" I don't like the way you say 'not ofter last night. I detect a certain enty in the tone -- a certain under- current of bitterness. You ought to be overjoyed to see me absolutely bristling with joi-de-vivre,"
"I merely marvel at your powers of recovery."
"You needn't, Bertic. It's all due to Rose's Le Frace, you know. Prevents mornings after the night before. Just the thing before you go to bed. And now, Bertie, with your permission I step out and deal our unsuspecting arboreal friend a couple of shrewd cracks with my little axe."
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June 5, 1941.
Coastal Command
has flown
·MY
visit to th
great hive of activity which comprises the ad- ministrative and operational side of the Coastal Command was an illuminating experience.
I saw harmonious and efficient co-operation be- tween the Command and the Admiralty.
A place in this headquarters is also allotted to the Army, for Halson duties, which will become really active if we have to repoi För undertake an invasion.
At the head of the Command H Air Chief Marshal. Sir Frederick Bowhill, a hardy' ex- naval officer and sailing-mister, and an artist in the handling of men and affairs.
He has renped to the full the reward of all the hard work he put into the preparation of his Command for war. We all re- member with gratitude how in- stantly and perfectly the Constil Command went into action in September, 1939,
25
million
war miles
The work of the Coastal Command alicraft never coases..
THE NEW RAF-No. 5
BY.. AIR-COMMODORE
P. F. M. FELLOWES
Jantic.
The greatest problem the
the
establish themselves in Norway, to maintain a wireless silence to The third phase, when the prevent the enemy from know- -enemy overran Holland, Belgium ing they are in their vicinity,
and France; added to our diffi- This means that their dead It had to meet the first of the
culties enormously.
reckoning and astronomical phases into which this war divided itself--and, to those
From now on, it was quite im- navigational standards must be possible to cover closely all the very high, who have studied these changes,
enemy's sea exits to the At- Greatest Problem it has been satisfying to observe how quickly and thoroughly each new phase has been dealt
Fourth Phase command has to deal with is the with.
move of our active and often The fourth. phase, which is convoy problem. To be able to То enter the great new courageous enemy. central room and to see on its To realise how hard this now in being, is of course the cope with it they have to know walls the vast mass of informa- thinking organisation must have most difficult of all, because the exactly where each ship is and tion which springs to the eye, is been worked, it is only neces- enemy has established and or where each of our submarines
Iganised his bases of operation is to understand how closely and sury to recall how, phase by throughout the whole western The same applies to with what supreme efficiency phase, the war from the sea
It is one long fight between the trolled. our whole great sea play is con- point of view has steadily be coast of Europe with the excep- enemy submarines, if possible.
come more difficult for us to deal tion of Spain and Portugal.
Looking back on the history air-backed by the Navy-and with. Vast Sweep
This difficulty has been caused of the war, it is most remark the enemy U-boat.
The main purpose of the able how, without dismay, the The area of this plan, which by the gradual increase of Admiralty and the Coastal Com- Coastal Command is more to in- extends from the northernmost coustal areas in Europe held by mand have accepted in their form the Navy of the position extremities of Norway to the the enemy. Straits of Gibraltar, vividly
stride the increasing dificulty of the enemy U-boat than netu- In the first phase, when the of the situation with which they ally to attempt itself to destroy brings home the vast sweep of enemy was contined to the pre- have been faced.
the enemy-although In many air power.
war German frontiers, their Movements of ships and alr- only sea exits were from the functions: to assist the Admir
This command has three main cases it has successfully gone
into action. THERE seems to be no doubt that craft-British, Allied, neutral Heligoland Bight and the en-aity in the blockade of the vides the information, and the Normally, the Air Force pro- the next phuise of military operations and enemy-are plotted.
trances to the Baltic. Constant consultations take will decide the fate of Syria, the place on the steps which may be able to control the exits and en-blockade us; and to safeguard
During this period we were enemy; to defeat the enemy by Navy the bite.
countering their attempt to
In actual fact, the constal air-, French-controlled Arab state which necessary to deal with any trances, not only of their sub- this country from surprise in craft had carried out by the end breaks the Allied front in the cast-situation. ern Mediterranean.
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serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous
arrangement..
GLANCE AT SYRIA
marines, but also of their sur- The planning is done in each face ships.
Turkey, whose own destiny is in-case by expert members of the Raiders Foiled
timately wrapped up with this anti-services. cipated action Is malting appeals for Britain to move which sound almost
that if the Nazis establish them selves in Syria us they have already
vasion.
..
of 1940 over 198 attacks on U-
To enable them to achieve bonts, having sighted and ro these needs, the command is ported them 274 times.
During the same period they It almost made one sorry for I believe it to be a fact that divided into groups corresponda. our enemy to see the tolls of the Germans made a number of ing and working closely with the had carried out 104 attacks on enemy warships, and 277 attacks intelligence - thinking desperate. Well the Turks know chine enmeshing him in its raiders but were foiled by the
ma- attempts to get out surface naval commands.
on enemy merchant vessels. It has also a training group,
To do this they had to dy destructive grip.'
its vigilance of the Coastal Com- because specialised and 161.000 hours, which represents On the staff of the Coastal mand, working in every instance diversified duties require a distance of about 25,000,000 Command are experienced sub- in conjunction with the Navy. training which is additional to miles, or nearly a third of the marine commanders and active The second phase of the war that normally given by the distance to the sun. sen officers from surface ships, came when the Germans took Royal Air Force.
During this time they have These groups control stations convoyed over 2,000, convoys, all taking their part and colla- over Denmark and invaded Nor- unt
which are located all round the containing more than 40,000 borating in the planning and way. thinking brain of the Coastal This phase, although giving coasts of England and Scotland, ships and totailing about 200,- Command.
them much wider sea entrances Northern Ireland, the Western 600,000 tons. They are continuously think to the Atlantic, still remained Isles, Shetlands, Iceland and As a variation from the Considering that as recently as ing up and devising fresh very much under our control Gibraltar,
U-boat menace, the Germans 634 AD. Syrla was part of ile schemes to defeat each fresh until they had started really to The duties of this ring of are now more and more inten- stations ontall convoy protec sively developing the use of tion, sea reconnaissance, enemy their Focke-Wulf Condor long, harbour reconnaissance, range bonberar aftacking submarine patrols by day and our shipping. (night, aircraft patrols for
done on the former Turkish Gracco border Turkey is likely to become an- other Sweden-a country With nominal independence only such time as Hitler has time or the Inclination to assert full sovereignty
over R
Roman Empire it is surprising that
Italy has not already made claims Private Life of a Private
The Meaning Of
...66
Jankers"
Another instalment of one confined to barracks.
anti
At present these bombers are enemy aircraft, attacks on not such a serious threat as the enemy shipping and naval land U-boat because they are not used targets, photography, both over in very large numbers, but they the sea and over the land near could easily become so if un- the sen, protection of the fishing countered.
flects and lightships from air at Our Life-Line
tack, mine-laying, and torpedo Dozy's dropping.
Web-Footed
to incorporate the territory. For four centuries until the end of the Great War the country was part of the Ottoman Empire. It was then handed over to French mandate and,; following Great Britain's example when Independence was granted Iraq, the French concluded a treaty with the Syrlan and Lebanese re- publics in 1938 under which full in- of the most popular and wide- got five days now.
The defent of these craft is a dependence would be granted to the ly-copied Features in wartime "And for ten days after that aircraft the Sunderland, the engaging the thinking brain of They employ all types of boat problem which is very actively Arab states in three years,
journalism. The author, Syria, however, is not a homo-writer now in the Army, gives out after ten o'clock.
a he loses his privileges-can't be Lerwick and the Stranraer; the Coastal Command, and ho geneous ethnic state, the population
long-range bombers, such as the doubt they will be more and "Then began old Dozy'll de drills American Hudson; and various more efficiently countered as: including Arabs, Turks, Armenians readers intimate glimpses of and Christian Lebanese. The French life in the ranks to-day. in marching order; every afternoon. divided the country
into five regions
"He'll be inspected by the officer, other types of bombers and time goes on. roughly according to racial borders.
and if he isn't property cleaned up fighters for special jobs.
There is always a counter to WO mornings ago, when and dug out, he'll be for it. These were Arab-Syria, Christian
Tveille sounded,
They are now being reinforced every form of offence: Lebanon, the semi-nomadic Jebel
an. "You see, it just won't pay him to by the American P.B.Y. flying- In our Bomber Command we Druse, the coastal territory of Lata- extraordinary thing happened. be idle. He'll have to liven his ideas boats and Flying Fortresses. cannot operate under conditions kia and the Sanjak of Alexandretta. The youth whom we call Dozy up of he'll be in trouble all the time." The last named
of widespread fog, but in the had
also a
"But," said the Lad, "Just say- a special status with its important position on leapt out of bed with a muffled don't care. Say, 'e simply keeps on
Coastal Command the need for and dragged on his fati-
One of the most important convoying and for reconnais- population. Full independence in gue overalls; crammed his boots any old 'ow, and missing parades.
of {functions
tho Command sance never ceases, and the re- 1040 would have left the former chockful of feet; slapped a cap What "ap penis?" Ottoman Empire colony divided into on his head, and was out of the geantwhy if he keeps on being standard of navigational train. Command has had to operate in
"What happens?"
snld the Ser-Headquarters Is. to appraise the sult has been that the Coastal four separate republics, but the hut like streak. treaty was never fulfilled because
Ide, and insubordinate, and dirtying and seamanship which its all weathers. France feared to lose her hold in the
Now Dozy is a man Middle East.
whom Glass House for twenty-eight days." them to take a part in actual only for seven hours on one day why, then, he'll probably go to the personnel reach before it allows. I believe it to be true that An early problem was that of the nothing seems to arouse. He
since the war started, has no Sanjak of Alexandretta now called can sleep like a two-toed sloth. sistence, was ceded to her just before-eloven o'clock, when soup the Clood Boy from. Godalming, the special subjects of coding,
This gives some measure of is served.
"It's the Military Prison," said the ship recognition and visual the service our active flying. Sergeant "You go there for deteng signalling, besides the widest personnel are giving their coun "You get hard work, dirty failguca, possible knowledge of seaman try, and also of the strain on real honest-to-God chasings on the ship in all its förmei
not only the C-in-C. but all his Stair. WE looked at one another. Square several hours
They have also to be picked A bugle. sounded. De-amoking, no time to yourself, and you for their endurance because of Yet to meet any of these mon I've seen soldiers go in the Ginss the length of their patrols, ing on, and enjoying, their test- is to realise that they are thriv
pride have never marred our long as you like.
You can be a Defaulter as House like lions and come out like which may extend up to 12 to
ing and very fruitful lives; 1[end 16 hours. lambs. with the Arabs. Syria has been ruled by decree since July, As long as you dnsiver your of things, are designed simply to mand: They must become should be defeated. Therefore, Punishments, in the ordinary run. As they put it in the Com- our life-line, the Atlantic sea route, were to be cut, wo liven you up-like C.B-to bend
Hatay, which, thanks to Turkish per- His brain scarcely functions be "Is that where people live who operations.
mustn't throw stones?" asked They have to be experts in Conatul aircraft been air-borne.
fore the outbreak of war by the French who had experienced con-
xiderable opposition to their mandate Dozy is what Sergeants, call thereas Indeed they have through- an Idle Man. out all.
all.Syria..
The Arab world has no love for the French and, it must be admitted, little for the Turks. Britain's record
is much brighter, especially of re- faulters cent years and brutality, intolerance
relations
1930, when the Arab President of name. M
Svein
Syrin
ned
of fouse of the im-.
the
tion.
a
day, no
do everything at the double.
Then the Lad from the Ele- you fairly. gently, to the required web-footed." a stable Evphant and Castle said: "Ain't shape. But If you don't bend "why, while
It is no exaggeration to say that An interesting sidelight on Franco-Syrian trenty was untulilled.
you card? E's got Jankers you break; ...
the strenuous job of the flyhig on their efficiency and endurance The Germans may well
"Now, then, Ginger, get them personnel of this command is British Empire.
rests the continuity of the Jankers is an army word blankets straight or you'll drop a big that they regard the ferrying In these qualities we can have offer Syrld complete Independence over Vichy's which means Confinement, to one on Room Inspection!" head on condition of their co-opera-Barracks, a
of new bombers across the full confidence. ion against Britain but it is doubt-
INGEIt rearranges his blankets; Atlantic as a pleasant rest. **
and Dozy returns.
The command must have the "It"seems to some of us that his greatest confidence in the navi, leaden eyes are a little brighter gating skill of its personnel, ns more" alert-the eyes of a man whol
ful if the Arnb leaders would fall The Tall Boy from Sunder- for this guile. A bold move by Brisland said to a Sergeant fain now may well anticipate the
the Exayuctly what hayuppens enemy's, plans before they can when you got C.B.T fructify and thus, keep clean
***
will otherwise be a very bloody pageNothing much," said the Ser- is listening, opecting womoting he normally the boats or aero
geant. "It means to, say you're dares not miss.
planes when out on patrol havo
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