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...only 60 miles away. Somewhere in the Mediterranean, during the distraction, an Axis convoy had probably pushed through to North Africa with supplies badly needed by Rommel. But the Axis had paid heavily for the transports' passage. In the five days of almost ceaseless combat, Malta's ack-ack guns and the R.A.F.'s Spitfires had destroyed more than 100 Axis aircraft. This week Malta still stood, battered and bloody, with guns and planes ready for the next Axis raid...
George Lait of I.N.S., huddled in the glass nose with the bombardier, saw the ack-ack. He also saw "gun flashes from three enemy cruisers and gun flashes from shore batteries. Just as our plane was directly over the target, bombs from the preceding planes hit the ships. Our plane was tossed like a cockleshell. The target was ablaze...
...Looking out of a window, I saw earth, sky, planes above, planes below, all mixed with ack-ack puffs as our pilot twisted, turned, sideslipped. . . . Someone shouted: 'There he is, for God's sake, open fire.' A machine gun started clicking and shell cases flew all over the place. I looked at Jorgensen [the pilot] and thought he was hit, but it was only muscular contraction as bullets whizzed past. One of the gunners shouted that he had knocked down a Messerschmitt and Frost [a gunner] got a second one. Over the interphone I heard Frost tell...
Sept. 15-From 50 to 75 bombers based in Norway attacked at high and low levels. Below low-hanging clouds ack-ack took care of the raiders. Above, fighters from the carrier did the job, spitting fire into the ranks of Junkers-88s and Heinkels...
...that British aircraft production exceeded German output, a British official plaintively observed: "How the hell does he know?") They have dug deep, well-equipped raid shelters, which London sorely lacked in 1940-41. Techniques of fire fighting, rescue work, food distribution and civilian rehabilitation have been tested and perfected. Ack-ack defenses are said to be 40% more effective than in 1940, night-fighter protection 100% better. Britain is ready...