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The
Imin-the-street to recog
TT must be difficult for tho
nise the extraordinary merit of our recent air operations in the Middle East. They have, to, a large. extent, been absorbed in and overshadowed by the splen- did doings of the Army in Libya and Eritren, and of our Navy in the Mediterranean.
Everything, in fact, has gone so easily that unless the dif- ficulties that have been sо. SUC- cessfully overcome are exposed, thesa successes might be dumb- ly accepted as natural..
West.
in Africa
Concluding Article' in the Series:
THE NEW R.A.F.
By Air Commodore
P. F. M. FELLOWES, D.S.0.
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Achievement
Think also of the constant need for the improvisation of communications in all senses,
over..
has a great heart.
In the last war be shot down 68 enemy aircraft, an astound- ing record for any man.
Great Record
renaica
The sense of proportion with which our available, air power has been distributed in the widely separated areas involved must have had a great- say in our success.
In recalling this, we must not for- get the courage of the decisions of those at home, who allowed so in- portant a part of our air power to be sent abroad.
At the same time, however well distributed our smaller resources hati heen, no one could have anticipated such startlingly good results.
The British fighting moralo must be Indiiltely 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 procesa hap- pening with the Luftwaffe--in Africa, particularly.
Malta's Defence
23
up-
The defence of Malla from attack
the
round their aerodromes.
ply of all these forces, ia Air perienced pilot and a quiet, We have already given them To the mind of one who Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Long- wiry, determined type capable good lesson over Malta, and *lately Commandant of of cheerfully surviving and.deal-parently they have not liked it. knows the country over which more,
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
All these officers have been cause of the small area of the island meet, there has been something sential. for this appointment
consequent dimculty of get- ting almost mystically perfect about an outlook gained by the varied trained in the Royal Air Force, and the
at the
the enemy In time when he the whole business.
experiences of his long career in Naval or Army. Staff. Colleges. does attempt an attack.
They are fully-tempered cogs So the auccess
esa of
air defence The outstanding features of the Navy, Naval Air Service and
in our great war-thinking ma- of this island fortress is remarkable." these campaigns are the enorm the R.A.F.
The only atrung defence thai Malla ous land area over which they He was one of the first four chine.
possesses the sixty miles of sca have
Classic Drive been
simultaneously naval pilots, and had the luck
which lie between Sicily and its own to be sent to sea just before the
store line. This is an unpleasant spread.
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 RA F 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- The many bombing raids which Stubbs Road Egypt and Libya-nearly 2,500 smiles rather than bites his way fully in the Middle East, I ought aircraft defence.
now to look at their fields of nc- have recently been carried out in miles from North to South and through troubles.
tivity.
Catania, Comiso and other aero- nearly 1,000 miles East to The officer he placed in opera-
The campaign of the so-called dromes are method of anticipating tional command of the Air Force
aircraft Knowing that, think of the in Libya was Air Commodore Army of the Nile, which has the attack of German dive-bomber.
moved like a relentless and ir-
against Malta. This macthod can be successfully dimeulty in control, the difficul- Raymond Collishaw:
resistible steam-roller from applied where enemy nerodromes aro ties of supply, of personnel, nir- "Colly" is a Canadian from craft, stores, petrol, munitions, the Canadian Navy, a borr Western Egypt through Cy- not numerous, or where the enemy
borders to the
of bombers cannot be widely dispersed Tripoli in a short two months, It is impossible, however, to apply will without question go down it with complete success in Northern Europe and here we have mainly in our history as a classic.
It is the first outstandingly to depend on day and night fighter
defence. successful big campaign in In Eritrea the. Air Force has in which the Navy, Army and Air miniature carried out with great 'success an almost exactly similar | 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 Air rain which has had to be flown Commodore D'Albiac, an mand has apparently been to Libya.
ex-
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- in the last war.. difficulties.
flying career
The operation of the R A Fing communications, headquarters, The modest and restrained Since then, he has always shown
back aerodromes and lorry concen- were conducted in conformation. Middle a highly offensive, imaginative with this plan: the attacks on
trations. communiques which
These were combined with short- East headquarters have studl- and realistic outlook in his use
aerodromes, harbours, distance punching tacties enemy
like the ously issued have, in a way, of Air Power.
bombing of the enemy at covered up the splendid com- He is not a man the enemy enemy headquarters, were all convey bined efficiency of the Royal would ever think of affection- apparently planned to
This place, due to its fine natural the impression that we were defensive position and our long Australian Air Force, the Royal ately.. New Zealand Air Force, the Air Vice-Marshal Tedder, only hampering and delaying the communications, may take time to Royal South African Air Force who has recently gone to the enemy offensive. in Egypt, while subdue, but however long it takes, the reconnaissances were of it means that all eventually come Middle East, is one of the quiet, and the Royal Air Force.
such Let us uncover some of their controlled, thinking type-much with a watchful defence.
a nature as would fit in into our possession.
In Abyssinia and in Itallon Yo- achievements.
to the enemy
malliand the more dangerous
the Royal South African Air Force and the Royal Air Force The Air Officer Commanding than would appear at first sight. Tireless R.A.F.
have been flying over a most tre- in Chief, who has been responsi- The Air Officer Commanding ble for the policy, selection, or Malta is Air Vice-Marshal May smothering the enemy air power
When the moment came for mendous terrain, often in the face
of terriộc weather conditions. ganisation, disposition and sup- nard, a very able and ex-
They have done, from the Itakan to prevent their discovering our point of view, most wicked damage intended surprise offensive on to irreplaceable equipment. Sidi Barrani, so little change in wild areas of the world would pro- What is happening daily in these our gradually increased vigi- vide matter for Innumerable adven- lance and offence, was apparent ture 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 airmen. veloped in the early morning Libya, italy, Sicily, Malta, Eritrea, Factivity in and our intention was disclosed, Abyssinia, Albania, time has been the importance of events in two ly variegated spectrum of the full action.
History and journalism weigh colours that compose the proud then our Air Force came into found to give the Dodecanese Islands
a good pounding." differing pairs of scales. An British Empire dealing with the From then on our Air Force
Calato, Maritza (Rhodes), Kalta- event tella in the journalist's King-Emperor's enemies.
via, have all suffered badly from 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 air power The ubiquity of our Air Force in varies from what happened yes- It figures in the daily news and to destroy its power of this quite astonishing-un- un-terday, even if it will not matter from Africa. But did we dream watching and reporting on our less their numbers are much greater than we have any reason to suppose in the least to-morrow. But the six years ago that the challenge moves.
they possibly canba The Issue which the British historian: is only interested in would be taken up to such light-
At the same time, our Air The
and the enemy In the people have in mind, however, events which will retain their ing purpose by the whole Em-Force, by intensive bombing, curselves and 67 losses betweens goes deeper than that. The significance a hundred years pire?
spread confusion not only in the Middle East has been twelve to one years of prosperity smoothed the from now. Judged by that Its main constituents are free councils of the enemy but also in our favour. edges of internal dissension, exacting standard, how many of nations, choosing their own path in all his supply and reinforce-We may with confidence look for- ward to our men gradually—or per- gave the common man a taste of
our current news items have in peace and war with perfect ment arrangements.
haps suddenly in the great fight the ineffable blessings of free | dny value?
freedom. Well,
The RAF achieved these objects there is before us, pulverising the they have so completely that it is quite imporsi morale of the Luftwaffe as they speech and action, the sanctity Even a naval or military chosen war. Well-meaning for-ble to measure the value of its ser- have that of the Reglo Aeronautica. of family and the benefits of event is nothing more than à eign liberators offered them anvice to the Army.
The invincibility of the Hun is a civilisation; and proof that they step towards eventual victory. opportunity of casting off the tie It is most heartening that our Air
We will smash that mythi did not altogether cloy the spirit True, that victory, when it is with the Old World. But that Force was able to do this in the face
*Now. Air Marshal A. W. Ted- of the nation is to be seen in the won, will signify, since it will tie is woven of their own free actual numbers greatly superior.
der. production of supermen and fix human life in a mould which wills; and the younger nations supermachine-small as yet it is will endure for generations. So fight beside their kin. The true that are holding the ram-final victory will hold its place same path is followed by the parts against the enemy to-day.in man's memory that wo rest of the vast array-by the It is true to say that every dignify with the name of his turbaned Indian and the smiling Englishman is fighting for him tory. But the battle's name, foot soldier' from the Gold self because every Englishman which tops to-day's front pages, Coast.
THINGS TO COME
ONE of the many glib phrases explaining the tension leading
to up
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 Herren class over all. In our own Em- pire it is likely to be retained in a different form because the war that has been thrust upon us is certain to be the greatest leveller of class and race since the French Revolution, but certainly without the horrors that accom- panied that gory and controlled manifestation.
An Empire Lives
By Philip Guedalla.
is fighting for the same things. is relatively insignificant. Less The Empire marches- 28 What those things are, some so, perhaps, some circumstance some if its observers had sup eminent statesmen have tried to in the battle the first use of posed that it might never march boil down to war aima. Briefly. some device by which the face outside a Jubilee procession. those war nimis are the negation of the whole war may be trans- But this time it marches of Its of everything Hitler stands for formed; or the emergence of an own free will and to a fight. It and the whole democratic world individual whose name may marches, because there is a will endorse them to-day.
ultimately overshadow half a common conviction that the de continent.
feat of Britain would also be
The allies and exlled govern-
ments have.put their aims on a battle may signify much more Empire, moved with a common For a single feature of the the defeat of freedom. So the similar scale and it will be a in history than the battle itself. impulse, gathers to defend its cynic indeed who can still ques. It is gratifying (though hardly centre, which is itself. tion their good faith. Through a
That is, perhaps, the most
powerful press in Britain the unexpected) that Fasciat armies man and woman in defence crumble. The result, perhaps, historic feature of the news was never in such doubt, though from Afrien. The British Em- services at home and abroad modern salesmanship applied to pire is a live reality and not an keep before the Government politics had led Nazi-Fascist Empire-builder's dream. Ask the case of the common man and prospects" to anticipate the the retreating defenders of woman who are fighting the war opposite. But one feature of Italian colonies if Moslem India for liberty and ensures that the the operations on all fronts in behind its bayonets views Mus- administration that will even- Africa holds a more durable solint as the Moslem's champion, tually emerge victorious will be
significance. We take it now if Africa Is waiting for tho literally purified, forged and for granted that Australians Roman wolf to rescue it. No, tempered by the fire. Benefits and New Zealanders are march Africa is rescuing itself by come to all through a gooding across Africa behind King the disciplined resolve of King government and a good govern- George's fing, that his advance George's Africans. For the Bri ment at home makes good into Abyssinia is led by Indians, tish Empira is alive-as living friends abroad. While govern- that Mussolini's outlying colonies as the laughter of Australiana ment and people are working in should succumb to South in an Italian fortress or the such unison as exists in Britain Africans on the ground and swooping airmen from South to-day there can be no doubt in above It, and that the west Africa above the last miles of the mind of any fighting on our coast of Africa should lend its Italy's slavo-Empire. Free Em- side that the stakes are well sons to complete the panorama pires live: slave Empires go the worth winning.
of divergent races, erceds, and way of Romio; /
jof an enemy who was probably ́in
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