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Mid Week Selection by Friell

"Elmer's a scream! Wotch this-he's got no film in his camera!"

"It sure will be great it be comes here, I must practise

my curtsy."

AIRPORT BAR

WASHINGTON

"I was expelled from Moscow in retaliation for your being expelled from Washington in retaliation for that tellow who was expelled from Moscow in... say how long have you got before your plane's-due?"

HANDS OFF THE CONGO

"We must stop the cold war spreading here and return to the simple straightforward faw of the jungle.*

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1960.

CONCLUDING

IT is a curious thing

that the battle forma- tion used by the victor- ious squadrons of Fighter · Command in the Battle of Britain was shortly afterward rejected 09 being dangerous and in-. effective.

The explanation, I suppose. lies in the fact that during the Balto we were 100 preoccupiedi to worry about the niceties of tacticn

Just as the Army at one time traditionally fell-In in two ranks and formed tcair's before marching off, zo we in the formation which flow

down to us had been handed --sections of three airplanes. one on each side and a bit to the rear of the lender, and four such sections to the squadron.

Picked off

-When pairalling on an opern- onal mission it was the job of the two outside men in the last from side 12 section 10 wenve

side, guarding against attack from behind.

More often than practice, these “weavers"

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not, In

wore

noch too busy trying to keep up with the rest of the squadr

to feen a proper look-out behind. And they were picked off with painful regularity by attacking Messerschmitts,

We all expected the Germans ta, make another assault in The suring. And we knew the des- perate Importazice of preparing ourselves for it.

The story of the greatest

SCRAMBLE! battle of

)

the War.

by HUGH DUNDAS, D.S.O., D.F.C.

MY NEW BATTLE PLAN

AND I WAS

ITS FIRST VICTIM

DOUGLAR' BADER Betermined to get into nutr

One evening in the Tangmere mess a few of us sat up late discussing tacties.

I propounded the idea that we should dy in sections of four

Channel, off Calals, at 20,000 feet. We Bow, about 100 yards apart and almost level, allowing Bader to keep just a few yards In front. I was in his left, Paddy Woodhouse was on his right and D. sergeant pilót of 016 Squadron was further to the right ngain,

If anything camé un behind us we must see. The idea was that we would wait and watch gif the enemy was alınäst in range, then break hard outwards -Bader and to the left, the ather pair to the right..

Then I saw them and my tummy did its ustunl somersault. Four or five tols, curving errand above and behind, then straight- ening cm on the stung course "ourselves - Messerschmitt

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1005.

We sat and sweated it out. walling for Bader's order to break. When it came we whirled round a turn so sharp, thai The haze of Incipient Black-out almost shut off the sight of lader's tail wheel as I followed round.

For my own part, 1 had every good personal reason to mistrust the old system. For months I offeraf-two pairs, and sil four had flown 3 one of the back airplanes in line abreast,

Straightening oul on our men in the back sectiún of the

That way. I suggested we original course."I peered around squadron. I had once been shot down without seeing what had could fly absolutely straight, the for the 105's. According to my

hit me, and had been extremely lucky to survive.

The same thing had happened to inany of my closest friends and they had not all been, so lucky,

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pairs crossing over only on masterly

Lens. The pair on the left would be able to watch the sky of yards behind, for hundreds the pair on the right and vice versa. Nothing could creep up

I have no ideo

E start again withla few was not. weeks, and we knew that

we would be in the thick of it from the start. But we still had not resolved finally the question of

10 NOW S

Worth trying

charged through a lot of dis- could have persed Soltfires and came to rest undetected. a tow yards from their pizadeva pilots' hut.

The experience did not suggest that we had found a better batile formation than the one we had all used in the Battle of Britain. What had gone wrong? Still behind

Back

Ikader.

approached

Us

Despite the unfortunate begin. ning, we decided to adopt the new formation. And it was taken. up also by many other Wings. 1 that some of them. dure say experimenting like us, picked on

quite independently.

The 11 Group faster force which trained and walted that at Tenginere, Woodhouse and I conducted on another attempt at Invasion was spring for Hitler to make inquest the sergeant plot, stronger far, despite all the unfortunately, was missing. We losses, than the force which had. decided that we had turned too soon, or too quickly-en,both.

The effect had been that the

Messerschmitts were still behind us when we straightened out. But the fact remained that we had seen them coming Nothing

been at Dowdlug's and Park's disposal in July 1940.

Our Spitfires had more power- ful engines And bwo 20mm cannons had been added to their armament. We were grouped by Leigh-Mallory Into strong Wings.

THE SOUND OF SEA

HELPS DEADEN PAIN

AT THE DENTIST'S

BLUE STREAK

THE gentle swish of the sea on a shingle beach is cutting down the pain felt by hundreds of Britone

·when they visit their dentist.

The sound-or an alternative selection of light music-is fed them through earphones of they sit in the operating-chuir. So 1

It is recorded on tape fust Doctore and dentists report that it is proving a great boon most cases,

exposition लं the previous night, they should now be in front of us, waiting to be Where were they? that down.

Arain the explosions seemed utterly shattering and devastat- ing. Again the cockpit fled When in February. 1941 'we unseen.

with thick white smoke, showing moved south to TangmETE, On the West Sussex ernst, we whether This was un original that my glycol tank had been

it hit expected The Battle of Britain idea or not. Most probably

But this time I had a jellison- system for my hood, ing pulled the plug and vushed the canopy way. The smoke mured out and I could see what was what. The sky seemed to be empty, except for one Spitre, I had to get down quick, before the smoke turned to are.

Hawkinge, the 1tlle grass air field behind Dover, was in easy gliding,distanee and I made for it. In the excitement of the moment misjudget the approach and came in much too high.

Having no enzine I could not go round again, so pushed the hose down and got my Spitfire on to the ground, wheels em, travelling at about 149 mph and close to the edge of the field. We carcered along, the ground in a cloud of mud and stones.

Nexi morning I was having the best formation. for opera- breakfast in the iness when flons against the Messerschmitt Bader came and sat șt the same 109's;

table. He announced cheerfully We had changed, like most that he hath been thinking over alber squadrons, from sections what I had said. Worth trying of three aircraft flying in V's lo he thought. sections of four, flying in line He called over to Paddy Wood- astern. This

added house, Kave

C.O. of 810 Squadron, to get another pilot manoeuvrability. But the last told him

each section was still from his squadron; and be ready 1b dangerously vulnerable for take-off at about 11.30.

With the air of a situation,

BD con- Soon after we got to Tang, ferring a great, favour, he told mere, Douglas Bader was posted 'me, that as the whole thing had to the station to lead the three been my idea I could go along fighter squadrons stationed as his number two. there, moulding them into one cohesive · cŷmbat unit,

man

At about 12.15 we were fy. ing from east to west down the

THE ROME OLYMPICS.

THE HUMAN TORPEDO

AMERICAN sports writers voted him the great-

est swimmer of the first half of the 20th century. A film critic described him as "the most harmonious piece of human machinery and phy.. sical fitness ever seen."

His name: Johnny Weismuller, winner of three "Olympic gold medals, one-time holder of every world record from 50 to 500 yards, and immort- alised by Hollywood as Tarzan of the Apes.

They called him "the perteet And whe the family muved man." He was broad-shouldered, close to Lake Michigan, he was barrel-chested. 8 ft. 3 in., and able to study the techniques of packed the strength of an ox top-class swimmers. into his 199 16. frame.

Soon he was imitating their

Yet this splendidly proportion- style. Ifis strelos gradually im- ed athlete was once an alling proved and his leg kick became ond undersized youth more powerful. The lost arms weakilny Who Was a constant. that had formerly hung loosely 'source of anxiely of his parents. et

Gloomy

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skles bekame driving falle thnt. propelled tads body through the water at amazing speed

Weismuller stili tucked power-

Doctors gloomily aliook their fal bulid and he was turned heads when they examined this away when be tried to enter one Chicago-burn son of Austrian of Chicago's leading swimming immigrants. Juhnny Weisulter was so frail and weak that he clubs as ʼn competitor.

might never be able to lead a

norinal tubust life,

Only one physician saw a ray

Shrewd

of hope. He suggested that. But he went to another club

‹ swimming exercises might bulk where shrewd swimming coach.“

up the boy's strength.

William "Back" Bachrack de-

Like his, parents, 13-year-old gided to admit him to his coochi Johnny could not swim a stroke, ing classes.

By JOHN COTTRELL

The trees; he wanted to stay in the water. And for the first me

in his life, he once-fratt athlete found himself struggling to lose weight.

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At the start of end làm ho weighed in at 189 lb. The pro- ducer put a clause 17 the con-f tract, silpulating that if Wel-: 2001 smuller weighed more than

Jb. at any me during the Sim he would have to pay him 1,000 dollars per each pound gained.

Swinging

There were matrimonial dim- cultles (he has been married four times) and in a brawl in New York's elegant Stock Club he was found swinging from the chandeliers,

He became a centre of contro- versy in 1846 when he bitterly attacked

sald sportsmen who they wanted the Germons and Japanese banned from the 1948. Olymples,

Its reputation as a swimmer has also been dammed in ro cent yours by the sensational "woter

He had no interest in the sport. Weismultor began competitive dramatic pect, the human to B main, 4.2 sec. Four years later, performances of new But he was ready to tackle any swimming in 1919 and kept to pede exploded on "the swimming at the Armsterdam Olinpier, he babies." Ils records have been thing to conquer his disabilities. an intensive, ruthiem training world. In that one gununer 18 collected us third gold medal by smashed over and over again

He began by splashing about programme that astonished ex-year-old Welsaruller broke every winning the 100 metres free-style even by young girls.

But Welmuller's・ grement world record from 60 to 600 in 68.0 sec, In the muddy river near his verts.

KUOTOEFLUÏ Triumph was yards. home-Using "waler wings." He One day he would mind an

Then after a decade in which rule for supreme filneas, And hated every minute of it. He hour in the pool, merely holdingte became a national gure he broke 67 swimmies records, he introduced row technique and was cluney and awkward. But on'fʊ a board and perfecting his, and women hot favourite, for a the Olympie giant was snapped training ideas which were takert after weeks of endenvour le feel movements. The next day' 11o when he went to Paris for up by Hollywood to play the up by where the World over?. found himself swimming a few he would swim for an hour with the Olymple Canies of 1924. litle in "Tarzan the Ape Man." strokes at a umo-end enjoying it feat encased in a rubber

tube, metering it strokes. Walstaller won the Olymple It was a successful but not en-

Hi Interest mounted with his Wolanulier attracted likiza at. 100 metres treestyle in 30 sec, táraig happy move for Welamull-........

•ability. He did his wiremath, lantion until 1000, Then, -with mind the 100-enekton tweetylw in ex.. Froskicers wanted him

in

Tomorrow:

The Human Frog,

in

The musie patient. The soft, lulling sound

to do appears

two things- masks the whine of a delil, and takes the mind off local pain.

But when we want into netion in the early summer it was 'not in a resumption of the Battle of Britain. It turned out that Hitler postponement", of the Invasion has in fact been a can- cellation imposed by Fighter Command

In May, 1941, we carried the battle back whence it had come-over to the skies of northern France. Day after day. under the direction of Leigh- Mallory and Scholio Douglas, the -strong Wing formations Bew out wcross the Channel, assertively offensive.

PLUE Streak-res or no? The

1.

Furious fighting ́....

The fighting was furious. The lasses were heavy. In 618 Squadron we went through the equivalent of more than a whole squadron's strength of pilots that burning hevilc apner, Hut we gave better than we got ́......... and no Germam crossed our shores in daylight.

When, in September. I was inally posted away from the squadron which I fained as a boy before the

not a single auxiliary pilet was left. I was, the last.

wor.

It was consoling to know that Battle of Britain the men who had fallen in the would hove been satisñed indeed if they could see how, just a year later, we held an honoured place among those who had carried, the battle back to the enemy.

London Express Kervleu).

The World of Science

by

中

TAIPHY

D debate goes eternally on. satellite scanning equipment, dock Government DID now used to roast fowl in the crastination. Professor Fred Hoyle joined beam: gun

The other day oven, or in lamps. (4) A pow for high-quality in and warned us to beware of welding. (5) A ceramic, people who exaggerate the in- developed for radar tracking

now the portance of a British space pro- domes, relaxes

used to pake gramme.

household pols and pans. Just for the squabble record. (8) A new forage harvester, this is how the U.S. House of using un aerodynamic principle Representative committee ori worked out by rockel engines. Science and Astronautics views (7) A plasma are torich, now space rescurch. In a report just helping to mass-produce ultra- issuetit it lists the

coatings. following tard, materials and by-products that have resulled (8) A now type of valve for from THEIR programme>

home heating systems. (1) A drug, derived from

The report meations dozens rocket fuel, now being used to

more part adds: We can be treat tuberculosis and

thmi some rumably twre

the control mental disorders, (2), Sensitive grauteet, sinest, benefits to come patient devices, adapted from satellite from our ventures in space are his cholee of munte instrumente, now used to

yet unseen." volumes now

on the

measure, body temperature and blood flow, (3) Infra-red

One dentist who has tried. It on 1,000 polients reports that 250 of them needed no, other kld of pain-killer..

Soveral dentists have rigged up their own lape-recorder and earthones but a new machine with B small, remote panel from which the can alter or its inarket.

"SONICIDE?"

"Bad,aase:there, Hawkins, man! Jelt his hearing vald .

`opstowskavat had a chance, pest

Blue Streak-yes or no?

(London Expresa Service),

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