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...west was spread thin. Day raids by between 100 and 300 British fighters and bombers at first had easy pickings. In the first month of the Battle of Germany, Hurricanes and Spitfires flew 2,000,000 plane-miles in offensive sweeps and patrols, and destroyed 301 old Messerschmitt 109s, while losing only 118 of their own fighter planes (the British lost 112 bombers in the same period...
Saturday was not quite such a success from my point of view, as on our third patrol I lost my aircraft. We were at about 21,000 ft. when we got involved with a squadron of Me. 109s...
...development of high-performance pursuit types, Sir Kingsley could, and did, justifiably take pride - a pride which he showed last week in the somewhat extravagant statement that he would pit a hun dred Spitfires or Hurricanes against a much larger number of German counterparts, which would mean Messerschmitt Me. 109s, or Heinkel He. 1125. For Hurricanes and Spitfires have been vastly improved in performance (principally by replacement of antiquated wooden propellers by American-type, constant-speed metal props). And the Spitfire, traditionally nimble in dogfight, has been stepped up to close to 400 miles an hour in top speed...
...PoetOliver La Farge 171C. H. Morgan 71Kenneth Dole 62J. W. Knedler Jr. 45Ballots cast out 9Total 358OdistR. D. Gerould 203A. C. Sedgwick 144Ballots cast out 11Total 358ChoristerR. P. Bullard 185A. S. Simmons 109S. N. Brown 62Ballots cast out 2Total cast...