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August 29, 1940.

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R. A. F. PILOT

TELLS HIS

DOG-FIGHT

JE got a "Stand by" early

We the morning of the first

day of the Dunkirk evacua- tion, and at 9 am, we got our orders. There were 12 of us and, climbing to 20,000 feet, we bended across the North Sea

were

We kept well together, but of course kept radio silence. We knew every inch of the

to which we roastline

without heading, but even that knowledge there was no mistaking it

Dunkirk Only a few minutes. after leaving Britain and at our height we could see the pil- lars of smoke rising from the burning town and the villages all the way up from Calais.

WIS

At 4,000ft, we were bestling along still Inoking for trouble when I saw a Hun formation. of about 60 machines--20 bombers and 40 fighters-at about 15,000ft, and cursed the height we had lost.

The fighters, mostly Mes- serschmitts, heeled over and came screaming down at uk and the next second we were in the thick of it. That al- tack developed the most dog- fights Into individual seraps. It was at about 10,000ft, that I found myself on the tail of my first Hun, a Messerschmitt 110.

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Most of my instruments member had gone haywire in the etnurse of the violent manoeuvring I remember particularly that my gyro was spinning ericly and the artificial horizon had vanished somewhere into de interior of the Instrument panel, carnly burning up its bottom and showing me the niker's tarp and

Air Ministry Murk IV thing like that

the

words

Down wen! the Messerschmalti ornin with me close un his tail With the great speed of the divr controls were freezing solid and 1 was fighting the stick hard to bring the Hun up into the centre

LAMENT

never

HE French Republic is no

led to disaster by traitors, self-seekers and imbeciles, la thrown back into a bondage such as its people, even under the sway of the Bourbons, knew, The outward form of a Republic is indeed preserved; but what does the numo "Republic" mean when It is no longer the public good but the will of a foreign tyrant, executed by men who have taken his bribe or al- lowed themselves to pass into his power, that reigns supreme?

The history of France, like the history of Britain, dates indeed from the conquest of its territory nearly 1,000 years ago; but that was a conquest of civilisation, whereas this is, a reconquest of the powers of darkness. One thou- sand years of struggle towards liberty are undone by eight weeks of fear, confusion, military failure. The cradle of modern democracy sinks at one stroke beneath the flood.

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Mirabeau, Danton, Robespierre, you who championed the rights of the French people against the pri vileges

of a ruthless aristocracy,

of iny rights, When you get their There they stick, in fnet, it's hard to get them out Once there you ran hold them fi eve

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button thumbed the trigger Just once, twice I smelt the c

furcs de

blowing back front! my Brownings as the 1,200 squirta minute from each of them went into hama I now the little puris of fame as the trucers struck

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For fraction of a seeriad I saw f:c back oullise of the pikol's gend half dewed around 141 wint WON aftey him before pre- sumably be rearend in know

I looked armand for the pesi, but They were gone My Own Net (2]} bad browugh! the abrut 50 antes

we Turner And he led back, piedicing with a shock that my petcut reserve was just enough get me home provided that I kan into MG more tritife

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About that Besi fucht when you're going bato It you think "What fon," and when It's over you think "How bloody dangerous

Uut over the North Sem and 1- winy Interle to the station រ Iteked <r] the radio and called on the plots of my squadron one ly tres "How are you"

Did you 16-1 my The first one bark jubilantly he had gut one. Then the rest -all of them had gut

Che Two

WHITE Junny When

what he had ket r Kut t

growling actuel entre live R disgusted, with "A tud Zeppelin Two didn't answe

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Kack at the station we refuelled. eleled next were off agado in a

of an hour Quiz terr

Back over Dunkirk at 10,0000 we ran into a whole Bock of Messerschmitts.

} nuw tracers going past my cars and actually heard the KUD rattle from

my tall act I followed be WIEN Rone bien down, hanging the throttle open and lepting on my stick. b In the last smoke clouds hanging Over Dunkirk | least hira.

Up again 1 saw the rest of the squidron at about 0,090/1, They were in a hell of a mix-up with the Hum fighters and some Junkera 08s, and I climbed up to join them.

My radio was open, and us 1 climbed 1 could hear a stream of

FOR

voice of the people might prevall, do your uneasy spirits quali at the the darker tyranny now stulting through your native land?

occasionally eonde bnek-eùnt pass- ing backwards and forwards be- tween one of the other membeer. of the squidron, devnatomally pune- tunted with bursts of gusire a they were popping off at Huns

I heard t Oner, for instance, New Zealander calling and paying calmly. “There's a Messerschmit

your tail," at the reply "Okay, pel and then I was in it,

1 picked ut a Junkers 18 whose tall gunner get on to me as soon as engaged The tracres of his guns sheered past me, seeming to supre lazily past my Window

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Agutta there

that lovely feeling of the gluey controls wad The target bednot slowly hauled initi the sighte Then thank down $1 the bigger again at the smooth: struddering of the muschine as the muhl-gata blast let go

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This time the squirt 1 gave him

him in Two must have cut

His (all folded back on his wings and there was a great sooke and Dash of same as

As ! went down spiralled down slowly after him, keeping a look-out for more, I saw tun bat: out and his chute.

en.

leur of The sky was nearly Huns and I turned round for home egafit, calling up the squadron us I went.

'1',,,,, time we were

there.

our total big was better than the test show

We had got eleven in all, ranking nineteen in the morning for our twn.

The second day we had a tie- fined objective, bút 1 detached two priots to do some free-lance patrol- Jing, one abuve clouds, watch

were about 12,000n, over Dun- kirk and the other almout 2.000ft. below The rest of u went of toword: Calach.

About halfway there I heard the ce about the clouds calling to the other in a deliberately affected sort of netor's volee. “Oh, look what's vorming, dearle, hordes and hardes of Messerschmitts. Nasty Messer- schmitts. And the answer back: "Okay, pal, keep them busy. I'm coming upstairs."

We

and started swunk round back. Making the quick turn out 10 Wh

Kaw some Junkers guarded by Messerschmitts bomb- ing a torpedo bont and some smal

LIBERTY

Corsican, You, Bonaparte the who conquered all Europe In the name of Liberty only to yield in yuur turn to the lure of Empire, did you not feel the eyes of Europe's did you not feel the eyes of Europe's new tyrant resting on marble tamb? Did not a your remnant of Italian blood in your long-dend veiny stir with revolt day fastened his teeth in the body when the Italian hyena of to-

of

herllage? You marched as a conqueror from Paris to Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Egypt and Russia but stopped short of the English seaway and fell at last to English arms, do you not, in your great soul's resting place, call down Heaven's vengeance on of your the -modern oppressors country and those who have de- livered her into their power?

your

who

the conqueror's fer, mute under heel and silent before the jackal's yelping of your betrayers? Will you eat the poisoned frùlts of sur- render for ever rather than take up the sharp daggers of rebellion or shoulder once more heavy arms of war?

We connot utter the word "France" without thinking also of another great word, "Freedom. The Declaration of the Rights of Man, the mind and heart that move the French people so quickly to understand the tyrant's enterprise and with such valour and such devotion, in all ages, to withstand and defeat it--these come to birth, as the day follows the 'night, on the smiling..plana,.by the softly flowing rivers, near the cool' moun- tains and under the munny skles of France,

They spring from the soll of her. vineyards, from the rolling seres of her corn-fields, from the warm 'rains and light breezes that beget her life and fan her spirit, The heart of such a nation cannot die. It may beat less bravely for a time; the red-hatirons of shame and bondage may sear it; the breath of lies may weaken it. But deep Within the tortured body it will! live on, waiting for the resurree- tion morning, waiting for, the call that will restore it to full le

And you, the French people, ever patient in suffering, ever va- Hant in buttle," ever ready to spring to arms in defence of your own and in the cause of liberty freedom the world over, you who have held aloft, the torch so long, who lit the. and broke the chains in every land that has thrown off its oppres

message of hope for the downtrodden to every corner of again to mono to earth, do you accept this new wolt

fires

and you who indeed shed the blood @ darkness that has closed about your Betri. "pourvu que la França"

of thousands, to fall in your tum

beneath the guillotine that the

Will you sweat and will you tell, DAVID SCOTT will you submit and will you suf

OWN

STORY OF

rescue craft packed with troops for below Changing the anti-nir- craft fire from the torpedo bout, we plunged 10. The uns never MALAS un coming. Every one of us Rut une in that Brat dive.

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Stick Lav zid screaming up ngale, we reformed and then down This time the Hans ubec had senttered and it wasn't so cusy. I got on to one Messerschmitt who retortiming for home and got seguirt in

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There was the usual burst of smoke troen his engine as he went tłown I followed and I'm glad 1 4. Biding my time 1 let him hure it

didn't know then how they

I

had got on with the Messerschmitt swarm they had got into above Dunkirk, but on the way back the first to answer my radio call sud that he had got four. Then he suddenly said, "Oh, hell, my en- glue's picked up." Then, "I'm on

tre."

There was silence for a second

he of two and

Bald. "Yippee! There's a destroyer downstairs. I'm bailing out." A second later "But how?" beard him muller.

It in a muniter of fact not easy to bail out of a Spitfire. The best way is to turn her over on her buck and drop out through the bood--if you can. That, we found out Inter, was exactly what he had

done.

MORTAL

Martin held her tight. "I've come to take you away. We'll go to-night on skls, the way I took Werner-across the Pass to the Austrian border."

"To-night " Her voice was a whisper. "I need never go back to town? I need never let you go?"

He laughed quietly, "Try and Then he went on get rid of the." with his plans. "We should be rendy to start soon after sunset. We must reach the border before daybreak. Your mother will be counting the hours. I promised her to bring you anfely home."

"Home," She Ingered over the world.

He went on gravely, "It won't be casy, this journey. You've got to know what you're taking on. It's a long hard way, I'm pretty suspects the spot where 1 Cross the border but there's always the chances of n patrol.

nure ro

one

There was exaltation in her Ince. "I'm not afraid."

He started. "Look, the 51n's setting already. We've got to get busy"

She WRS a bit dismayed. "So

soon? But we've so much to say.. Her lips curved with wistful humour, "We've never said the usual foolish things."

to say "We've all our lives them" He kissed her long and well. na the shadows deepened around them:

"Children," Mrs. Breitner colled, "It's getting dork. You have no time to waste."

Martin's

with eyes gleamed humour. "We're not wasting time mother."

Night had fallen by the time they had their knapsacks" ready. and their skis, strapped to their boots...Then came the moment for Breitner's departure and Mrs. quavered blessing was upon them as they started

They moved down the slopes for hours, stopping now and then for a moment's rest. But after a long while Freyn began to falter. Martin's voice floated back in the mist. "Am I going too fast? Ten 'dear." Ho&raturned to her. Every time I look back you seem smaller and frailer,***

-Corry

She reached out to him. "Oh

her anxiously. "If your strength holds out,"

She smiled back at him vallant- ly. "You're my strength. I won't fall you."

Again they plunged onward and Freya was just managing to stum- ble

kim when all along beside

he cried, "Freys, look. at once, look! They were standing on a 1001

sort of ledge and through the floating mist they could see venied a valley, with white roots, gicamming in the morning sun. It was like a bright glimpse of an- other world. "Austria."

She was stirred to new life. near"

re-

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His eyes were enger. "We've only to cross that open space. Those fall rocks are on Austrian soll. When we reach them we'ro sale. Come on, we can make it." They started off but suddenly he stopped, taut,

"What is it?" she asked, fright- ened.

"A patol. There, on the right." He faced her. It was a grim mo- ment of desperation. What shall We do? We have n fighting chance. Shall we try for it? Or shall we go back?"

She said quietly, "To what? To your death-perhaps to mine?"

Swiftly, they kissed, knowing that this might be their last cares in life. They then emerged from and started to y their shelter across the open snow.

But all at once the mist. lifted and there was a ringing shout "Halt

Almost, It Halt." sounded like the voice of Fritz, 'begging them" to stop..

They went doggedly on. Again came the plea, desperate ly urgent. "Holt. Halt there!"

And then-a rifle shat rang out, Another. Marlin turned as 12 the hand of God Itself had stop- pod him. In that moment he knew that he was alone. Freya had been taken from him.

No, there was still a small smile

on her lips as she lay huddled in the snow. He stooped and gather- ed her into his arms.com must falsted," she: mtremurad have painfully He nodded. "But we did it didn't we? We're free." Her eyes clouded I think I must rest a little now: I'm tired, Very very tired! Her head, fell

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soul moved him to an instinctive uction. He lifted the slim body of the dead Freya'in his arms and ruse to his feet.

The mocking sun fell on her young broken body, on the still, white face, the bright tossed hair. Fritz looked at her there, gazed upon this sacrifice he had offered to his gods on the altar of duty, Then, white-tipped, and crushed, he turned away

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In the tomb that had once been the Roth home, Erich and Otto moved about, gathering up their mother's...possessions.

She had written and asked them to send on her little knicknacks, reminders of her former life.

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alience screamed out at him, "I had no choice. It was my duty." He went to the door." "There's a staff conference at Headquarters. You're to report with me now." Ma

He, and Erich went to the door and without knowing why, Olto stood there a moment. Suddenly, he seemed to hear the muted strains of music. A dood of me- mories came to him

Father's birthday dinner.

And then there was Freya's warm, gay, volce,

"Six candles one for each decade of a wonder-'- ful life, father....... Now you must”. blow them aut"

And the Professor, "Ours has been a very united family-in this

STORM

But there was a step for which home we've had the habit of they were listening. Why didn't gracious living. We've prided our- salves on tur tolerance and our Feliz come? They know that he had been ordered in pursuit of sense of humour-” Freya and Martin. Why hadn't he returned yet with their sister? What made her do 11 Otto suddenly cried, "Why" He turned an, the door opened.

"Wish, Zather," said little Rudt in a ghostly whisper, "blow out the candles

Swamped in bitterness,Otto heard it all, folt the pull of it apf upon the grim vows to which his Stiffly, mechanically, Fritz

youth was sworn. Then his jaw proached them. His voice was

··hurch; with suppressed emotion. "hardened The path o met them at the Karwendel Pass strife and brutality was

I ordered them to halt. They r

was the one he had chosen. Truth

Martin, we're not lost, are We?!!d back and the sona lifeless in his fused to obey," He couldn't meet and nobilify were "of a“ vanished.

Lost? No. You're not stráíd?”:

SISEN & When I see you". Herb And NOT NEED VENNA A their duwning - horror" "At myera There was no turning back

voice was weak, with exhaustion,

In it still very far? The, Pass Jefwe, should, mike it in an hour, less perhaps. His arm gripped

nows the patrol came up, headed by Fritz, Slowly, "Martin looked at this man who had once been this friend, And then, the emotions raging darkly within his

command, the patrol o

fred Sumy be walked forwa

reava 21 braken home, and stepped Inid Otto fell back

martin: Breliner was arrested den charged with treason." Theis

THE END

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