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...Germany provided the usual week's food for argument when a squadron of Heinkel bombers stooped to a British convoy near the Shetland Islands. The Nazi pilots claimed they scattered the convoy, hit six ships, set one afire, sank one patrol boat. The British denied any ship was hurt and described how one of the Heinkels, diving through clouds to escape a British pursuit squadron, came out below only to encounter other pursuits, craftily flying a lower level patrol. These shot the Heinkel down...
...news to the world that part of the British Home Fleet was at Scapa Flow last week, because First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill had said it was not there. It was bigger news that a battle squadron of 14 or more Heinkel bombers from their base 600 miles away in Germany sighted the Orkney Islands just as the Saturday sun was setting. Nazi scouts had said the Fleet was there, but the airmen were amazed by its numbers when they got overhead. They picked out the biggest ones, started down...
...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, may well...
...fact remained last week, after more German air raids over the North Sea, one of which ended with a lone Heinkel bomber being brought down like a shot duck near the mouth of the Firth of Forth, that Germany's winter campaign of harassment affects the mass of Britain's shipping about as much as a woodpecker tapping on a bank vault. Because of the small bombs used and the difficulty of sighting for enough lethal hits, most of the ships claimed as "sunk" by Nazi pilots are only damaged. They limp into port with their wounded groaning...
...Langenhagen picture, made at about 5,000 ft., several planes can be seen moving across the field around (3). There are apparently 23 Heinkel He 111K bombers, twin-motored with a 75-ft. wingspread, two Junkers transports and three others. Oil spots on the runways show where planes are regularly parked. The hangars around the upper edge of the field are staggered in position so that they cannot be lined up for bombing...