1941-05-19 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 19, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

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The Battle Of Britain

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The squadrons are maintained aerodromes or vulnerable paints, There is general agreement that at their sector aerodromes at such as aircraft factories. The principle of employing stand- various states of preparedness," These orders are issued by the ing patrols is impracticable owing The most relaxed state is "re- | Controller whose function It is to to its wastefulness. To keep a leased" which means the squadron study the Operations Room Map sufficient strength of fighters al- is not required to operate until a and put a suitable number of air- ways in the air to guard our specified hour and that the per-craft into the air at selected points shores from any attack would be sonnel can be employed on rou- to intercept the oncoming raiders beyond the powers of the big-tine maintenance. Blying training or to cover vulnerable points. His gest Air Force imaginable. The and instruction, organised games, duty also is to keep constant watch fighter forces, therefore, are kept and that, in some cases, they may on bis resources so as to run no on the ground in the interests ofį leave the station, Next comes risk of being caught by a third or economy of effort and only or-¦ "Available" which means the fourth wave of raiders with all has dered off the ground when raids squadrons must prepare to be in squadrons on the ground "landed appear to be imminent.

the air within so many minutes and refuelling." It must be re- Information regarding the ap of receiving the order. "Readi-membered that the endurance of proach of the enemy is obtained ness" reduces this to a minimum modern fighter aircraft if it is t by a variety of methods and co- and is the most advanced state have ample margin for full ordinated and passed to "Opera- normally

used.

Occasionally throttle work, climbing and fight- tons Rooms "

"Stand By" is employed which ing is limited. Allowance must also The coastline of Great Britain means that pilots are sealed in he made for the journey bark to is divided into sectors, each with their aireraft, with engines "off" its own fighter aerodromes and but all pointing into wind, ready visibility is bad.

the parent stations, especially if headquarters. These sectors.

to start up and take off the mo-

With the tracks of the enemy grouped together under conveni- ment the Leader gets his orders aid and of his own flehters buth ently situated Group Headquar- from the Controller. ters which, in their turn, come

before his eyes, the Controller's [ In good weather conditions and task of making an interception is under the general control of when there is reason to anticipate in theory a comparatively simple Headquarters Fighter Command. an attack squadrons are perforce mathematical problem. He is in Information on enemy raids is kept at a high state of "prepared- | constant touch with his fighters illustrated by various symbols of Bess" which is relaxed as much by radio telephone, and is able to a large map table in Group and as possible when the weather de- give them orders to change course Sector Operations Rooms, the aim teriorates. The broad principles from time to time so being to give each "Controller" are usually to keep one part of them in the best position for at- as to put the same picture of the progress the Force at "Readiness." a sec-tack. of raids in his particular area. In ond part at "Advanced Avait- Once the fighters addition to this, Controllers have able and

"Normal! a third at all possible information

they have "sighted before them such as location and "state" of their own squadrons, the weather and cloud conditions all above their area. They are also in touch with Anti-Aircraft de- fences and Balloon Barrages.

are

report that enemy" the set out Available.” When an attack de-controller's task is over, except velops "Readiness" Squadrons that he may have to give them a are orderd uff in appropriate for-course to bring them back to their mations and "Available" Squa-aerodromes when drums are ordered to "Readiness" over. "Enemy sighted" signal the the battle is

and used as reserve to meet "Tallyho" is at once transmitted second or third attack or protect

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to Group Headquarters and re- corded on the Squadron state in- dicator. A red-letter day for any group was the 27th September, when, in number eleven Group, 21 Squadrons out of 21 ordered up were able to report "Enemy Sighted." But the successful in- terception of raids is not always so easy. In practice exercises be- fore the war 30 per cent intercep- tion was thought satisfactory and 50 per cent very good. When the test came. however, the

per- centages rose to 75, 90 and, some- times, 100, This consistently high rate of interception made it pos- sible for our superiority in pilots and aircraft to achieve its full effect. -

The task of the Controller in setting the stage for battles is governed by one factor-accurate and timely information of raids. In clear weather, with little or no cloud, the raiders came over at such a high altitude that they were al- most invisible, even with the use of binoculars. The number of aircraft employed made a con- fusion of noise in the high atmos- phere and thus increased the dif- ficulty of detecting raids by sound. In cloudy weather this difficulty was increased, for the Observer Corps had there to rely entirely on sound. In view of these dif- ficulties, that Corps and other sources of information deserve very great credit for the remark- ably clear and timely picture of the situation which they present- ed to the Controllers. These then were the set pieces on the wide chessboard of English skies and made opening moves in a contest on the outcome of which the safety of all free peoples depended. Flexibility was their motto. Each day the Controllers held a con- ference at which every idea or

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