1941-05-19 — Page 5

By BUD FISHER

YES! LIKE SAMSON, I

INDEED! OWE IT ALL TO MY HAIR!

WITHOUT IT I COULD NOT SING A NOTE!

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The Battle Of Britain

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The squadrons are maintained | aerodromes or vulnerable points, at their sector aerodromes at such as aircraft factories, various states of preparedness." These orders are issued by the The most relaxed stale is "re- | Controller whose function it is to to its wastefulness. To krep af teused" which means the squadron study the Operations Room Map suficient strength of fighters al- is not required to operate until a and put a suitable number of air-

to in the air guard our specifled 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-tie maintenance, flying training or to cover vulnerable points. His gest Air Force imaginable The and instruction, organised games duty also is tą keep constant watch fighter forces, therefore, are kept and that, in some cases, they may his resources so as to run no on the ground in the interests of

comes the station, Next

risk of being caught by a third or economy of effort and only or "Available"

mcaus the fourth wave of raiders with all his dered off the ground when raids į aquadrons must prepare to be in squadrons on the ground "landed. It must be re- the air within so many minutes and refuelling." appear to be imminent

"Readi-membered that the enduratice of Information regeling the cap-fot receiving the order. proach of the enemy is obtamed ness" reduces this to a minimum modern fighter aircraft if it is to

advanced state and is the must

margin ample by a variety of methods and co- ordinated and passed to "Opera-rmally used. Occasionally throttle work, climbing and fight- tions Rooms."

By" is employed which ing is limited. Allowaner must also "Stand means that pilots are seated in be made for the journey back to their aireraft, with engines "off", the parent stations, especially if but all pointing into wind, ready visibility is bud. to start up and take off the mo- ment the Leader gets his orders from the Controller.

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The coastline of Great Britain is divided into sertors, each with its own fighter aerodromes and headquarters. These sectors.

With the tracks of the enemy grouped together under conveni-

raid and of his own fighters both ently situated Group Headquar-}

before his eyes, the Controller's ters which, in their turn, ceme In good weather conditions and task of making an interception is under the generi control of when there is reason to anticipate in theory a comparatively simple

Command. Headquarters Fighter

an attack squadrons are perforce, inathematical problem. Information on enemy raids kept at a high state of "prepared-constant touch with his fighters Illustrated by various symbols on ness" 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 as to put being to give each Controller"

are usually to keep one part of, them in the best position for at- the same picture of the progress the Force at "Readiness,"

tack. of raids in his particular area. In ond part at "Advanced

Once the fighters report that "Normal addition to this, Controllers have¦ able" and #third at

they have "sighted enemy" the When an attack_de~ | Controller's task is over, except all possible information set out Available." before them such as location and velops "Readiness" Squadrons that he may have to give them a "state" of their own squadrons, are orderd off in appropriate for-

course to bring them back to their "Available" Squa- aerodromes when the battle s the weather and cloud conditions mations and all above their area. They are also drons are ordered to "Readiness" over. "Enemy sighted" signal the transmitted in touch with Anti-Aircraft de- and used as reserve

"Tallyho" is at once fences and Balloon Barrages, second or third attack or protect to Group Headquarters and re- corded on the Squadron state in- dicator. A red-letter day for any 27th September. group was the 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 its full and aircraft to achieve effect.

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Controller in The task of the 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,

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