WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Britain

Last month, when Germany unleashed her real air attack on Britain, she led with her chin in reckless massed raids of as many as 1,800 planes per day. Last week she showed that she had learned caution, punched craftily at Great Britain with not more than 1,000 planes in action each 24 hours, sent over in successive sections of 50 or 60 (two squadrons of 27, plus a few heavy Junkers 89 four-motored bombers).

''Sandwiches" of 'Messerschmitt fighter-bombers usually came over first between layers of Messerschmitt fighters, to draw off R. A. F.'s...

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