There is something astonishingly characteristic about recent broadcasts by R.A.F.
pilots. They know all about flying, these Young men, and very little about broadcasting—fortunately. Some of them, I should judge, are far more nervous in front of a .m;crophone than they are in front of a Heinkel or a Do tiler. and they would no doubt be astonished at the admira- tlon their unpretentious record of events must awaken in nine listeners out of ten. The fighter pilot who talked last Monday vIng been shot down that afternoon) was typical. . . . " We uught we'd have a crack at them. ... The lad on my left got '43, • • . I suddenly found myself attacked by a Messerschmitt 'at I must have overlooked.... I thought Pd go down and see !hat was going on. . .He came right in front of my gun- 40'13 ; he went straight into the sea and broke up. He was 'tally a si---,„L„6. bird. . . . Then we went home." just that. The British airman is in many respects a new type and an astonish- ingly fine one—but you could never get him to believe that,
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