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TT must be difficult for the man-in-the-street to recog- nise the extraordinary merit of our recent air operations. in the
·Middle East. They have, to n large extent; been absorbed in and overshadowed by the splen- did doings of the Army in Libya' and Eritrea, and of our Navy in the Mediterranean.
in
Africa
Concluding Article in the Series:
THE NEW R.A.F.
By Air Commodore
P. F. M. FELLOWES, D.S.O.
Classic Drive
The sense of proportion with which our available "alf power" has, been distributed - In the widely, soparated hress Involved must have had a great say in our sucevas..
In recalling this, we must not for- get the courage, of the dreisions of those at home, 'who allowed so, Im- partant part of our air power to be chat abroad.
At the same time, however well distributed our smaller resources had been, na one could have antlelpated such startlingly good results,
The British fighting morale must be infinitely superior to that of the Italians. And now it has started in this way it is bound to continue and Increase.
There is every reason to hope that we may see the same process hap- pening
with
Luftwaffe in
the
Africa, particularly.
Malta's Defence
We have niready given them
Everything, in fact, has gone so easily that unless the 'dif- ficulties that have been so kuc- cessfully overcome are exposed, these successes might be dumb-
ply of all these forces, is Air perienced pilot and a quiet, ly accepted as natural.
To the mind of one who Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Long wiry, determined type capable good lesson over Malta, and op knows the country over which more, lately Commandant of of cheerfully surviving and deal-parently they have not liked it.
The defence of Multa from attack ing with anything the enemy from the air by bombing or by air they have been operating and the Imperial Defence College.
He has the wide outlook es- may try to put upon him; • invasion is not an easy problem be- the conditions, they have had to meet, there has been something sential for this appointment All these officers have been cause of the mall area of the island. almost niyatically perfect about an outlook gained by the varied trained in the Royal Air Force, and the consequent difcuity of get- at the enemy in time when, ho experiences of his long career in Naval or Army Staff Colleges. the whole business.
due attempt un uttack. They are fully-tempered cogs So the success of the air defence The outstanding features of the Navy, Naval Air Service and
in our great war-thinking ma- of this island fortress is reinarkable. these campaigns are the enorm- the R.A.F.
The only strong defence that Malta ous land area over which they He was one of the first four chine.
possesses is the sixty miles of sen have been
which He between Stelly, and its own simultaneously naval pilots, and had the luck
sboro line. Thla lan. npleasant spread.
to be sent to sea just before the
Having introduced the hubs of area for the enemy to cross after They stretch from Kenya and battle of Jutland. Somaliland through Abyssinia
He is of the quietly and de- the various RAF Commands they have been shot about by the de- and Eritrea, through the Sudan, terminedly efficient type. He which are working so success. fending aircraft and by the anti-
fully in the Middle East, I ought iren Stubbs Road Egypt and Libya--nearly 2,500 smiles rather than bites his way now to look at their fields of ac- have recently been curried
miles from North to South and through troubles.
tivity.
Comiso and Catania, nearly 1,000 miles East to The officer he placed in opera- The campaign of the so-called dromes are method of anticipating West.
tional command of the Air Force
aircraft against Malta. Knowing that, think of the in Libya was Air Commodore Army of the Nile, which has the attack of German dive-bomber moved like relentless and ir- This method can be successfully difficulty in control, the difficul- Raymond Collishaw.
steam-roller from applied where enemy nerodromes are ties of supply, of personnel, air-. "Colly" is a Canadian from resistible
bombers cannot craft, stores, petrol, munitions, the Canadian Navy, a born Western Egypt through Cy- not numerous, or where the enemy be widely dispersed borders of round their acro renaica to the
aerodromes. etc., due to transport dangers leader, puncher and driver. He Tripoll in a short two months,
It is
is impossible, however, to apply has a great heart.
In the last war he shot down will without question go down it with complete success in Northern Europe,and here we have mainly 68 enemy aircraft, an astound in our history as a classic.
It is the first outstandingly to depend on day and night fighter ing record for any man.
defence. successful
in big campaign
In Eritrea the Air Force has In which the Navy, Army and Air miniature carried out with great Buccèss an almost exactly similar
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THINGS TO COME
ONE of the many glib phrases explaining the tension leading up to the greatest world hostilities of all times was that featuring the opposing parties as the "Haves and the Have Nots" a misleading expression because it put the issue frankly as the rich country versus the poor, the satiated against the hungry.
The catchword served Hitler well about the time of Munich but he has long since discarded It for the precepts of the Herron claas over all. In our own Em- "pire it is likely to be retained in" à different form because the war that has been thrust upon us is certain to be the greatest leveller
and distances,
over.
Achievement
Great Record
Air
nireraft defence,
The
bombing raids which out in other nero-
Think also of the constant need for the improvisation of communications in all senses, the hazards of the weather, and The Air Officer in charge of Force have combined.
The aim of the British Com- role to that of the Air Force In always of the tremendous ter- operations in Greece is rain which has had to be flown Commodore D'Albiac, an ex- mand has apparently been to Libya.
Punch Tactics marine and a very early flyer, convey the impression to our
enemies that our offensives, The campaign commenced with a The enemy, in short, has coming just after Longmore. turned out to be the least of our
He had a very distinguished when took place, were only "of surprise attack, preceded as in Libya
fensively defensive."
with the long-arm tactics of damag- difficulties.
flying career in the last war.
The operation of the R A Fing communications, headquarters, The modest and restrained Since then, he has always shown
buck aerodromes and lorry conren- communiquey which Middle a highly offensive, imaginative were conducted in conformation trations.
These were combined with short- East headquarters have studi- and realistic outlook in his use with this plan: the attacks on
enemy aerodromes, harbours, distance-punching tactics like the ously issued have, in a way, of Air Power.
the enemy nt covered up the splendid com- He is not a man the enemy enemy headquarters, were all heavy bombing of bined efficiency of the Royal would ever think of affection the impression that we were defensive position and
apparently planned to convey This place, due to its fine naturat our long only hampering and delaying the communications, may take time to
all eventually come of it means that
into our possession..
Air Vice-Marshal Tedder,
Keren.
Australian Air Force, the Royal ately. New Zealand Air Force, the Royal South African Air Force who has recently gone to the enemy offensive in Egypt, while subdue, but, however long it takes, and the Royal Air Force.
Middle East, is one of the quiet, the reconnaissances
such Let us uncover some of their controlled, thinking type--much with a watchful defence.
a nature as would fit in In Abyssinia and in Italian So-
more dangerous to the enemy
were
achievements.
The Air Oficer Commanding than would appear at first sight. Tireless R.A.F. in Chief, who has been responsi- The Air Officer Commanding ble for the policy, selection, or- Malta is Air Vice-Marshal May- ganisation, disposition and sup- nard, A very able and
CX-
An Empire Lives
By Philip Guedalla
smothering the enemy air power When' the moment came for
maliland
the
Royal South African Air Force and the Royal Air Force
have been flying over in most fre- tendous terrain, often in the face of terrife weather conditions.
of class and race since the French Revolution, but certainly without the horrors that accom- panied that gory
and controlled manifestation.
The issue which the British people have in mind, however, goes deeper than that. The years of prosperity smoothed the edges of internal dissension, gave the common man a taste of the ineffable blessings of free speech and action, the sanctity of family and the benefits of civilisation; and proof that they did not altogether cloy the spirit of the nation is to be seen in the production of supermen and supermachine-small as yet it is true that are holding the rams parts against the enemy to-day. It is true to say that every Englishman is fighting for him self because every Englishman is fighting for the same things. What those things are, some eminent statesmen have tried to boil down to war aims. Briefly, those war aims are the negation of everything Hitler stands for and the whole democratic world will endorse them to-day.
The allies and exiled govern. ments have put their nims' on a For a single feature of the the defeat of freedom. So the eimilar senle and it will be a battle may signify much more Empire, moved with a common cynic indeed who can still ques-in history than the battle itself. impulse, gathers to defend its tion their good faith. Through a It is gratifying (though hardly centre, which is itself.
They have done, from the Italian to prevent their discovering our point of view, most wicked damage intended surprise offensive, on to irreplaceable equipment Sidi Barrani, so little change in " What is happening dally in these our gradually increased vigi- vide matter for innumerable adven- wild areas of the world would pro- lance and offence was apparent iure books, but it is all taken in the that no warning was taken. stride of our stout-hearted and
Immediately the attack de. hardy. Troops and airinen. veloped in the early morning, Despite the RAF activity in Libyn, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Eritres, and our intention was disclosed, Abyssinia, Albania, time has been History and journalism weigh colours that compose the proud-then our Air Force came into found to give the Dodecanese Islands
full action. the importance of events in two ly variegated spectrum of the
good pounding. differing pairs of scales. An British Empire dealing with the
From then on our Air Force vin, have all suffered badly from Catato, Maritza (Rhodes), "Kaita- event tells in the journalist's King-Emperor's enemies. We was tireless in its efforts to night bombing raids, perspective if it is new, if it take all that for granted now. smother the enemy alr power The ubiquity of our. Aff Fored in and to destroy its power of this area is quite astonishing-un- varies from what happened.yes- It figures in the daily news
lesa their numbers are: much greater un-terday, even if it will not muser from Africa. But did we dream watching and reporting on our than we have any reason, to suppose
in the least to-morrow. But the six years ago that the challenge moves.
they
can be.. historian is only interested in would be taken up to such fight- At the same time, our Air
possibly The proportion of losses between the enemy In the events which will retain their ing purpose by the whole Em. Force, by intensive bombing, ourselves | significance a hundred years pire?
spread confusion not only in the Middle East has been twelve, to one from now. Judged by that Its main constituents are free councils of the enemy but also in our favour.
We. may with confidence' look for- exacting standard, how many of nations, choosing their own path in all his supply and reinforce ward to our men gradually-or per- haps suddenly in the great fight our current news items have in peace and war with perfect ment arrangements,
The RAF achieved these objects there is before us, pulverising the any value?
freedom. Well, they. have
so completely that it is quite impossi- morale of the Luftwaffe as they Even a naval or military chosen war. Well-meaning for- ble to measure the value of its scr- have that of the Regla Aeronautica. event is nothing more than a cign liberators offered them an vice to the Army.
The invincibility of the Hun is o It is most heartening that our Air myth, step towards eventual victory. opportunity of casting off the tie True, that victory, when it is with the Old World. But that Force was able to do this in the face We will smash that myth!
of an enemy who was probably In •Now Air Marshal A. W. Ted- won, will signify, since it will tio is woven of their own free actual numbers greatly superior.
der. fix human life in a mould which wills, and the younger nations will endure for generations. So fight beside their kin. The final victory will hold its place same path is followed by the in man's memory that we rest of the vast array-by the dignify with the name of his turbaned Indian and the smiling tory. But the battle's name, foot soldier from the Gold which tops to-day's front pages, Coast,
is relatively insignificant. Less The Empire marches-as so, perhaps, some circumstance some if its observers had sup in the battle--the first use of posed that it might never march a Jubilee procession. some device by which the face outside
of the whole war may be trans- But this time it marches of Its formed, or the emergence of an own free will and to a fight. It individual whose name may marches, because there is
a common conviction that the de- ultimately overshadow half
fent of Britain would also be continent.
powerful press in Britain, the unexpected) that Fascist armies man and woman in defence services at home and abroad keep before the Government. the case of the common and woman who are fighting the war for liberty and ensures that the administration that will even tually emerge victorious will be ilterally purified, forged and tempered by the fire. Benefits come to all through a good government and a good govern- ment at home makes good friends abroad. While govern- ment and people are working in such unison as exists in Britain to-day there can boʻno doubt in the mind of any fighting on our Hide that the stakes are well
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That is, perhaps, the most crumble. The result, perhaps, historic feature of the nows was never in such doubt, though from Africa. The British Em- modern salesmanship applied to pire is a live reality, and not an politics had led Nazi-Fascist Empire-builder's dream. "prospects" to anticipate the the retreating. defenders of opposite. But one feature of Italian colonies if Moslem India the opérations on all fronts in behind its bayonets views Mus- Africa holds a more durable solini as the Moslem's champion, significance. We take it now if Africa is waiting for the for granted that Australians Roman wolf to rescue it. No, and Now. Zealanders are march, Africa la rescuing itself by ing across African behind King the disciplined resolve of King George'a fing, that his advance George's Africans. For the Bri- Into Abyssinia is led by Indians, tish Empire is alive-aa living that Mussolini's outlying colonies as the laughter of Australians. should ~ succinib zito. South in an Italian fortress or the Africana on the ground and swooping airmen from South above it, and that the west Africa nuova the last miless, of coast of Africa should Send its Italy's slave Empire2 Free. En sons to completo the banerama pires livar slava Empires fo of divergent races, creeds," and why of Rome,z
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