Air Tactics

One day last week Hermann Goering stood on the platform of the timbered hall in Berlin's Haus der Flieger (Fliers' Club) and said: "Everywhere in the Reich, armament factories are undisturbed. Here & there an occasional bomb has temporarily caused interruptions but not a single plant, not a single factory of importance, has been destroyed."

Up on the blistering Channel coast the story was not quite so derisive. For last week the British gave even Hermann Goering something to think about. In full daylight 50 bombers, escorted by "over 100" fighters (some correspondents said there were more like 500 fighters), undertook Britain's first mass daylight raid on German bases. On succeeding days the British continued daylight raids and their fighters reported machinegunning Germans in trenches near the Channel. The British evidently felt that the time had come to take the initiative.

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