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Triumphs

in Africa

Concluding Article in the Series:

THE NEW: R.A.F.. By Air CommodoreTM

P. F. M. FELLOWES, D.S.O.

The sense of proportion with which our available air power has been distributed in the widely separated arcus involved must have had a great say in our success,

In recalling this, we must not for Ret the courage of the decisions of Thuso at home, who allowed só im-, portant a part of our air power to be sent abroad.

At the same time, however well distributed our analler resources had heen, no one could have anticipated such sturllingly good results,

The Brillsh fighting morale must be infinitely superior to that of the Iintlans. And now it has started in this way it is bound to continue and increase.

There is every reason to hope that we may see the same process hap- pening with the Luftwaffen Africa, particularly,

nise the extraordinary merit of our recent air operations in the Middle East. They have, to a large extent, been absorbed · in • and overshadowed by the splen- did dings of the Army in Libya and Eritrea, and of our Navy in the Mediterranean.

Everything, in fact, has gone so' easily that unless the dif- ficulties that have been so muc cessfully overcóme are exposed, these successes might be dumb- ly accepted as natural.

ply of all these forces, is Air perienced pilot" and, a quiet,

We have already given them To the mind of one who Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Long- wiry, determined type capable good lesson over Malta, and ap knows, the country over which more, Intely Commandant of of cheerfully surviving and deal-parently they have not liked it.

The defence of Malta from attack ing with anything the enony from the air by bombing or by nir they have been operating and the Imperial Defence College. the conditions they have had to He has the wide outlook cs- may try to put upon him. invasion is not an easy problem be-

All these officers meet, there has been something sential for this appointment-

have been cause of the small area of the Island almost mystically perfect about an outlook gained by the varied trained in the Royal Air Force, and the consequent difficuity of gel- the whole business.

experiences of his long career in Naval or Army Staff Colleges. ting at the enemy in time when he

does attempt on attack. The outstanding fentures of the Navy, Naval Air Service and They are fully-tempered cogs in our great war-thinking ma-

·

Malta's Defence

to

So the success of the air defence of this island fortress is remarkable. The only strong defence that Malta Classic Drive

possesses in the sixty miles of scu which lie between Sicily and its own shore ne. This is an unpleasant Haying introduced the hubs of area for the enemy to cross after

1

put in

these campaigns are the enorm- the R.A.F. ous land area over which they He was one of the first four chine. have been simultaneously naval pilots, and had the luck spread.

to be sent to sen just before the They stretch from Kenya and battle of Jutland. Somaliland through Abyssinia He is of the quietly and de. the various RAF Commands they have been shot about by the de and Eritrea, through the Sudan, terminedly efficient type. He which are working so success- fending alrcraft und by the anti-

fully in the Middle East, I ought

aircraft defence. Stubbs Road Egypt and Libya-nearly 2,500 smiles rather than bites his way now to look at their fields of ac- have recently been carried

The mony bombing raids which miles from North to South and through troubles. nearly 1,000 miles East to

tivity. The officer he placed in opera-

Catania, Comiso und other nero- West.

tional command of the Air Force The campaign of the so-called dromes are a method of anticipating the attack of German dive-bomber Knowing that, think of the in Libya

which has aircraft against Malta. was Air Commodore Army of the Nile, difficulty in control, the difficul. Raymond Collishaw,

moved like a relentless and ir- This method

'can be successfully ties of supply, of personnel, air- "Colly" is a Canadian from resistible steam-roller from applied where enemy aerodromes are craft, stores, petrol, munitions, the Canadian Navy. a born Western Egypt through Cy not numerous, or where the enemy cte., duc to transport dangers leader, puncher and driver. He Tripoli in a short two months,

renaica to the borders of bombers cannot be widely dispersed

round their aerodromes.

It is imposable, however, to apply will without question go down it with complete success in Northern in our history as a classic. Europe and here we have mainly It is the first outstandingly to depend on day and night fighter

defence. successful big campaign in

་་་ In Eritrea the Air Force nas In which the Navy, Army and Air miniature carried out with great Force have combined.

success an almost exactly similar ole to that of the Air Force in

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THINGS TO COME ONE of the many glib phrases explaining the tension leading up to the greatest world hostilities of all times was that featuring the opposing parties as the "Haves and the Have Nots"-a misleading expression because it put the issue frankly as the rich country versus the poor, the satiated against the hungry.

The catchword served Hitler well about the time of Munich but he has long since discarded it for the precepts of the Herren class over all. In our own Em- pire it is likely to be retained in a different form because the war that has been thrust upon us is certain to be the greatest leveller of class and race, since the French Revolution, but certainly without the horrors that accom- panied that gory and controlled manifestation.

un-

and distances.

Achievement

Think also of the constant need for the improvisation of

has a great heart.

In the last war he shot down 68 enemy aircraft, an astound ing record for any man.

communications in all senses, Great Record

over.

the hazards of the weather, and The Air Officer in charge of always of the tremendous ter- operations in Greece is Air rain which has had to be flown Commodore D'Albiac, an

marine and a very early flyer, The enemy, in short, has coming just after Longmore. turned out to be the least of our He had a very distinguished difficulties.

flying career in the last war. The modest and restrained Since then, he has always shown

Punch Tactics

The campaign commenced with a

The aim of the British Com. mand has apparently been to Libya. ex-

convey the impression to our enemies that Our offensives, when took place, were only "of surprise attack, preceded as in Libya fensively defensive."

with the long-arm tactics of damig- The operation of the RAF back uerodromes and lorry concen- Ing communications, headquarters, communiques which Middle a highly offensive, imaginative with thia plan's the attacks on

were conducted in conformation trattons.

at

East headquarters have studi- and realistic outlook in his use

These were combined with short- ously issued have, in a

way, of Air Power.

enemy nerodromes, harbours, distance punching tacties like the covered up the splendid .com- He is not a man the enemy enemy headquarters, were all heavy bombing of the enemy

Keren. Australian Air Force, the Royal ately. bined efficiency of the Royal would ever think of affection- apparently planned to convey

the impression that

This place, due to its fine natural we were defensive position and our New Zealand Air Force, the

long Air Vice-Marshal Tedder, only hampering and delaying the communications, may take time to Royal South African Air Force who has recently gone to the enemy offensive in Egypt, while subdue, tut, however long it takes,

Middle East, is one of the quiet,

of it and the Royal Air Force.

a nature as would fit in Let us uncover some of their controlled, thinking type--much such achievements.

with a watchful defence. more dangerous to the enemy The Air Officer Commanding than would appear at first sight. ble for the policy, selection, or Malta is Air Vice-Marshal May In Chief, who has been responsi The Air Officer Commanding ganisation, disposition and sup- nard,

very able and

a

CX-

An Empire Lives

By Philip Guedalla

the recommaissances were

into.

mcana int

all eventually come our possession. In Abyssinia and in Italian So- mulilandthe

the Royal South African Air Force and the Royal Air Forcu Tireless R.A.F. smothering the enemy air power

have been flying over a most tre- When the moment came for mendous terrain, often in the face

of terrife weather conditions.

They have done, from the Italian to prevent their discovering our point of view, most wicked damage intended surprise offensive on to irreplaceable equipment. Sidi Barrani, ao little change in What is happening dally in these our gradually increased vigi- wild areas of the world would pro- matier for innumerable adven- lance and offence was apparent ture books, but it is all taken m the

vide that no warning was taken. stride of our stout-hearted

Immediately the attack de hardy troops and airmen. veloped in the early morning Libya, Italy, iclly, Malta, Eritrea, Despite the RA activity in and our intention was disclosed, Abyssinia, Albania, time has been

a good pounding.

and

vin, have all suffered badly from

the importance of events in two ly variegated spectrum of the full action.

History-and-journalism weigh-colours that compose the proud-then-our-Air-Force-came-into found to give the Dodecanese Islands differing pairs of scales. An British Empire dealing with the From then on our Air Force Calato, Maritza (Rhodes), Katta- event tells in the journalist's King-Emperor's enemies. We was tireless in its efforts to night bombing raids. perspective if it is new, if it take all that for granted now. smother the enemy air power The varies from what happened yes. It figures in the daily news watching and reporting on our less their numbers are much greater ubiquity of our. Air Force in and to destroy its power of this arca

quite astonishing-un- terday, even if it will not matter from Africa. But did we dream in the least to-morrow. But the six years ago that the challenge moves.

than we have any reason to suppose The issue which the British historian is only interested in would be taken up to such fight- At

they possibly enn be. the same time, our Air people have in mind, however, events which will retain their ing purpose by the whole Em-Force, by intensive bombing, curselves and the

The proportion of losses between -enemy in the goes deeper than that. The significance a hundred years pire?

spread confusion not only in the Middle East hes been twelve to one years of prosperity smoothed the from now. Judged by that Its main constituents are free councils of the enemy but also in our favour. edges of internal dissension, exacting standard, how many of nations, choosing their own path in all his supply and reinforced my with confidence look for- gave the common man'a taste of our current news items have in peace and war with perfect ment arrangements.

to our men gradually-or per- the ineffable blessings of free any value?

haps suddenly-in freedom. Well,

the great fight they.

The RAF achieved these objects there is before us, pulverising the speech and action, the sanctity Even a naval or military chosen wir. Well-meaning for-ble to measure the value of its ser- have that of the Regla Aeronautica.

so completely that it is quite impossi- morale of the Luftwaffe

as they of family and the benefits of event is nothing more than a eign liberators offered them an vice to the Army, civilisation; and proof that they step towards eventual victory, opportunity of casting off the tie

The Invincibility of the Hun is a It a most heartening that our. Air myth, did not altogether cloy the spirit True, that victory, when it is with the Old World. But that Force was able to do this in the face

We will smash that.myth.. of the nation is to be seen in the won, will signify, since it will tle is woven of their own free actual numbers greatly superior.

of an enemy who was probably in "Now Air Marshal A. W. Ted- production of supermen and fix human life in a mould which wills, and the younger nations

der. supermachine-small as yet it is will endure for generations. So fight beside their kin. The true that are holding the ram-final victory will hold its place same path is followed by the parts against the onemy to-day. in man's memory that we rest of the vast array-by the

The

bave

Empire marches -as

It is truc to say that every dignify with the name of his- turbaned Indian and the smiling Englishman is fighting for him- tory. But the battle's name, foot soldier from the Gold self because every Englishman which tops to-day's front pages, Const. is fighting for the same things. is relatively insignificant. Less What those things are, some eminent statesmen have tried to boil down to war nims. Briefly, those war nims are the negation of everything Hitler stands for and the whole democratic world will endorse them to-day.

The allies and exiled govern- ments have put their aims on a

so, perhaps, some circumstance some if its observers had sup- in the battle-the first use of posed that it might never march some device by which the face outside a Jubilee procession. of the whole war may be trans- But this time it marches of its formed, or the emergence of an own free will and to a fight. It individual whose name, may marches, because there is n ultimately overshadow half a common conviction that the de- continent.

feat of Britain would also be

.

Ask defenders of

For a single feature of the the defent of freedom. So the gimilar scale, and it will be a battle may signify much more Empire, moved with a common cynic indeed who can still quest is gratifying (though hardly centre, which is itself.

in history than the battle itself. impulse, gathers to defend its tion their good faith. Through a powerful press in Britain the crumble, The result, perhaps, historic fenture of the news unexpected) that Fascist armles That is, perhaps, the most man and woman in defence was never in such doubt, though from 'Africa. The British Em- services at home and abroad modern salesmanship applied to plre is a live reality and not an keep before the Government the case of the common man and politics had led Nazi-Fascist Empire-builder's dream, woman who are fighting the war opposite. But one feature of Italian colonies If Moslem India

,"prospects" to anticipate the the retreating for liberty and ensures that the the operations on all fronts in behind its bayonets views Mus administration that will even. Africy holds a more durable solini as the Moslem's champion, Lually emerge victorious, will be

signlilcance. We take it now if Afrlea is waiting for the literally purified, forged and for granted that Australians Roman wolf to rescue it. No. tempered by the fire. Benefits and New Zealanders are march Africa is rescuing itself by come to all through a good ing across Africa behind King the disciplined resolve of King government and a good govern- George's flag, that his advance George's Africans, For the Bri- ment at home makes good into Abyssinia Is led by Indians, tish Empire is alivo-as living friends abroad. While govern- that Mussolini's outlying colonies as the laughter of Australians mont and people are working in should succumb to South in an Italian fortress or the such unison as exists in Britain Africans on the ground and swooping airmen from South to-day there can be no doubt in above it, and that the west Africa above the last miles of the mind of any fighting on our const of Africa should lend its Italy's slave Empire. Free Em. sido that the stakos are well sona to complete the panorama pires live: slave Empires go the worth winning.

of divergent races, creeds, and way of Rome...

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

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