Air-War According to Plan
Gradually the balance of power in the air is• being redressed. and today the Germans are as much concerned about our air offensive as we about theirs. The big sweep of a large force of British bombers last Sunday, accompanied by more than a hundred Spitfires and Hurricanes, over German-occupied France and Belgium, attacking invasion ports, aerodromes and communications without loss, proved that our pilots and cum can be as successful in fighting over enemy country as over Britain. Such attacks serve to upset the enemy's plans and preparations—whatever they may be—and push back the air frontiers. At a Press conference at the Air Ministry last Monday a senior R.A.F. officer emphasised the fact that the daily and nightly operations which are regularly reported are the results of a long-range -plan scientifically concerted. Our supreme aim in night-bombing is to concentrate the greatest force at the right time on the right place, with a view to damag- ing or delaying German war-production and obstructing the transport of materials. The Germans themselves have provided us with evidence of the devastation wrought by our bombers. But the assessment of damage is not guess-work. The reports sent in by ,pilots are checked by photographic records, and from other sources of information. The R.A.F. is not wasting its time and its petrol on sporadic, meaningless attacks on any- thing it encounters. Its objectives are scientifically fixed, and it is hammering away at these day after day with results which we know are seriously impeding the German war effort. It is not out for a " war of nerves," but to do specific war-damage- and in that way is hitting at the true nerve centres of German power.
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