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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 20, 1940.

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AW, PHOOEY!

MAGAZINE

Fighter boss finds quality

best pays

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BY BASIL CARDEW

Special Air Reporter

IR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR HUGH CASWALL TREMENHEERE DOWDING, beribboned, waste-no-time chief of the Fighter Command, is now No. 1 keyman in the Royal Air Force.

Dowding. Afty-eight, spare. exacting, works if out that his fighters help to shoot down thirteen enemy aircraft every twenty-four hours, and wing

a further seven.

the

Now Dowding "Stuffy"

RAF. throughout counts on two main assets for

which these mucLUSSER

may alter the whole tempo of the and they are known as two big M's-- metal and men- tality

War

in king 10 PIANOP why our machines stand the pater and outfight the Nazis in al most every battle, let us dval with metal first

THE German Air Forer use machines with a life of fifty flying hours. That is as long as they are made to last, and the sound it Germans

say eronomy to send them back then to the melting-pot.

Actually, the planes have to go back because of metal fati- gue. Through using weaker materials. the Germans find their planes get "tired" far Hooner than the British.

A British warplane is built for a fighting life of approxi- Inately 260 hours, Then it is turned over for training pur- poses for a further 250 hours.

But

thren- It also has a hour ground inspection after sixty flying hours, a half-day 120 overhaul at the end 25 hours, and when it has been in The air for 220 hours Kround staff gave it a whol day efter-over, which thorough business,

This

fac894ts3tcr seems to economy in the long run.

1

Because a British warplane is a handmade job, built with the world's best metals, it can do this long service with 100 per cent, of safety.

GOERING'S

arrait

211M i21 2301 way handmade

good planes are

VIL paper, the first

were Even when

Four made they were good. hundred miles an hour for the and more than 300 fighters

Everything for the bombers. right, nothing to fear.

were

same,

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nor

But unfortunately for the Nuzi pilots, these planes were the prototypes. They only

the first show models. Now they are in mass pro- It is quick, though, this

Performance duction. In re- melting-pot process.

nothing like the their time markably short

safety. The planes coming planes are stripped of the en-

from the sausage machines gines, dismantled and thrown

often fall or shake apart when throttle into the melting caudron to be

is opened. Others flutter from wing tip to wing shaped again for another day.

tip like the eyelids of a Vic- torian swooner.

The weakness is that an air force built on these principles is always half in the melting- pot, compared with a third of an air force which is usually considered to be grounded for repairs or reconditioning.

And another trouble is that even if an enemy warplane doesn't meet a British fighter or a well-sighted A.A. gun, it cannot be used for more than half a dozen battering trips over Britain.

This is the price the Ger mans pay for mass-produced, stamped-outwarplanes, made as if in a sausage, factory.

NOW how does the fighter air chief marshal (Sir Hugh) lino. it up with our

metals?

Own

Anyway, they give the Ger- man pilots a pretty rough time and combats become a losing hazard.

Sir Hugh Dowding, who flies his own plane, ranks this M for metal high indeed, and it has a lot to do with the other M-mentality of his boys who do the fighting. The boys say: "It's half the fight to have a good plane. Makes you feel you've won before it's begun."

DOWDING is proud of the way the R.A.F. mentally equip his crews who fly the planes. A first-class British pilot costs the country about £10,000. That includes his training and pay. Sounds rather high, but the cost of training a first- clase pilot is averaged out with three other boys in the

L.D.V.S Want To

Know-

DO WE SALUTE?

THAT are the ranks

Wu LDC officers and

H!

N.COM and how will they be recognised? What the lowest rank that will be paid the compliments given to a Regular Army officer?

LUV

Contes

ANSWER

Tonika VOR- Fund of Comunaraders of battali

platoons, pemps and sections, will then deputies They will have “bars" a misly Moulder with tave big turn, there ate urd Thrie in no rubut 11 I left les abomal sultitem ete olgotnsaflcars to make their own

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WE BETTER

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PHOOEY! WHAT CAN HE DO ABOUT IT?

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FRENCH

GENERALS FAILED

NFORMATION from French sources confirms the impression that whereas the Cormans have greatly deve- Joped the art of war. and in particular have thought out replies to their own lactis of defence in depth, the French bnd stood

or actually deteriorated :n tacties since

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Altack.

defence. 136 of artillery. reconnaissance--in every field, according to these French criticisms, was to be fouten lack of imagination, initiative, and even energy. which a certain inferiority in equipment appeared to justify only in a minor degree.

This information is of par- ticular interest as it deals with sectors in which the Germans WBY base a gruble yet been

did not employ tanks, most of made the 1.1) Vat D

what has been published hav- thot realise Government

on the subject of their day's

ing been men who, after

tank tactics. Riving hard-earnest work, are leisure willingly to the nation's defence are paying for it out of their own pockets?

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E they need it

Men who have to tase their cans are getting a nuleague al-

3d x lowance according to Je p 14 It

Je

over

extra petrol coupons

But the question of a giant s the L.D.Va for general pani poses in bestig kerf into

As might be expected, the Ger- attacks by mans prepared their careful al and ground observations; where they brought novelty to this task was in the boldness of their Listening posts, whas sometimes con- nected telephone cable to that of the French,

of their re Botring pairals, who studied pus sible channels for Inture in-

lessed the dispositiva and habits of the defence

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Infiltration began the night before the attack. patrols of three men with a light ma. chine-gun passing between the French posts by the passages previously reconnoitred.

Triken se Between learning stages. them they may write-off two trainer aircraft, it may

more.

principle it On the same costs £5.000 to produce a good air gunner, radio opera- tor or navigator. So a boni. ber, costing £30,000, with two pilots and three other means a capital outlay of £65,- 000. When the bomber costs only £20,000, as many do, the whole is valued at £55,000.

crew.

Fighters are cheaper. The pilot still costs £10,000, but he is alone in The cockpit, and with the price of the plane the total is about £7,500 £17,500.

STAKING all on numbers. the Nazis don't attempt to train their men so carefully, and quickly Cheap machines versed air crews, please, they guy.

That is why the German air crews captured in the last few weeks average only twen- ty years of age. Compare them with the R.A.F. boya who feature in the news. Ninety per cent. of them joined the service long before the war. Boys I know called from the reserve last Septem- ber-good boys, too-are still waiting for an action.

little Painstaking, and a alow, perhaps, but as Dowding knows 80 well-when his planes do go into fight his men have got those two big M's and half the battle won.

With them Britain needs no equality in numbers to be equal to or even superior to Marshal Goering's air force.

Al duam the artillery opened an ilinx Lenardren!

which the during settepak hours. elerneut of maltration penetrated still further, and the Finch tele. phone system, both atrial and from front to eat, was cut

Tar Nie of the light machine- guns which took the French posl in funk and even in rear gave the garrisons the impression that neigh- bring units had been driven back

themselves med that they surrounded. I they then fell back. the elements of inåltration follow- ed and harassed them.

were

171

On

If, on the other hand, they con

ground, tuned to hold their attack in force was launched.

given signal the artillery leng thened range and the assault troops advanced in dense formations with out even troubling to make use of uf clements the ground, while

to make Infiltration endeavoured

their rends the defenders keep down.

The attackers, following their principle of 1918, flowed through the gaps, but halted in front of points of re sistance.

In these circumstances the French garrisons of the strong points often retired to avold being surrounded. Thuse which continued to resist were reduced at nightfall by mor- tar fire, generally incendiary if the centre of resistance were a village. It was found that in practice these

of resistance centres

had little effect in holding up the forward flow of the attack through the gaps. To some French officers it up- peared that they had been betrayed by the dogma of defence in depth and that a continuous line, however weakly held, would have served them better, "From the point of view of moral," it is stated, "col- diers inevitably fight better when they know that there are no gaps on their right or left."

But the same observer has just been telling us how ad- mirably the Germans fought

when there were gaps, huge gapa, on either flank.

That argument, Indeed, falls to the ground when we ite funther informed that a Constitutia Jine would serve only against infantry attack wod that against tanka el

ቅ ነ should

be positions

always depth

How is the defence to know that tants have not been brought up during the might" No. whatever system be adopted, it must serve equally well against either ins or infuntry It seems, Indeed, that the French did not fully compre- hened the German tackles wish they strove to anitate

Though their defence I zonal, the Grumans have al most litera ways [rvognized that there must be a ine somewhere to check maltra- then, to protect the artillery, to Net ve A rallying position, to act as the objective of enter-attack, and if possible to provide an anti- Inzk barriet This line was found

1917 and 1918 in the Hinden- burg Line or its equivalent; I was represented in 1939-40 in the "lo fighting line" of the West Wall.

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In the lutter case it consisted of concrete anti-tank obstories, iron chevaux de frise of which svetions chang to the tank and were cureted along with it, and of a tank ditch.

abine in open warfare this sort would have to be im provised and would not be nearly always it would! * strong, but rxist

Everything in front of that main fighting line formed the This also was outpost zone. protected, but only by the barbed-wire fence so familiar in the last War.

flotile infiltration into Crin zane did not amount to anything very but even that could be checked by the active patrolling of the vulpust battalion.

serious,

It is an admission of weakness and lack of initiative if it be taken for granted that hostile patrols of three men are at liberty lo prowl about the outpost zone na though Qey owned it while the garrison sits in its strong points, which in of defence belle scheme such EI their nune.

Were such tactics to be practised against Australian troops holding would be o skutlur sector they pleased by the heaven-sent oppor tunity to collect prisoners without trouble.

The reasons for the German kuc- cess in the Instances recorded are to the found not only in their own boldess and skill but also in the which is French, Inertia of the summed up in the sentence: The French delence was purely static and passive."

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We also learn that neither in platoons, battalions, regiments were resources available for counter-attack when the enemy had succeed- ed in penetrating the defen- sive position.

to be

The reason is doubtless found in the widely extended fronts held by French regiments in the Battle of France, but it is fatal not to retain some reserve, however weak the effectives. It is also re- ported that the French either had no fares or did not use them.

always, em- The Gerfons, as ployed them profusely. In broad daylight the elements of infiltration signalled their progress with white flares and by night whole German front recalled a display of fire- works.

It is stated that in the counter- offensive the French made no at- tempt to carry out Infiltration either before or during the assault. Their attack, conception of an Infantry when no tanks were available, was a simultaneous and continuous ad- vanco on the whole front by all the attacking forces.

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