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...undertook its longest operational flight of the war last week-nearly 1,800 miles to and from Cracow and Katowice, Poland, where leaflets were dropped. Hard-boiled Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal does not have many illusions about winning friends and influencing people with pamphlets. The raid had more tangible fruits in the way of experience...
When Air Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal was made Chief of Air Staff last October, the choice was hailed as an indication that Britain was preparing to take the offensive against the Luftwaffe. For Sir Charles was previously head of the Bomber Command-an expert in carrying the fight to the enemy...
Last week the R. A. F. did turn on an offensive. This was not the famous Portal Master Plan-bombing industrial bottlenecks all over Germany and Italy. This was an offensive with an immediate military aim: disrupting German preparations for invasion of the British Isles...
...Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet, directly under Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, top man in all the Navy, was substituted Vice Admiral John C. Tovey (rhymes with covey). This change precisely paralleled the recent substitutions of Sir Alan Brooke for Lord Gort in the Army, of Sir Charles Portal for Sir Cyril Newall in the R. A. F. Tough "Jack" Tovey, lean and electric, is the man who, commanding the destroyer Onslow at Jutland, engaged first the cruiser Wiesbaden, then the battleship Derfflinger, with only his torpedoes and four-inch guns; stopped fighting only when a hail of shells...
...battered Londoners this was satisfying news. German claims that hospitals had been the chief targets received little sympathy. But to British strategists the attack was just a phase of the "master plan" of Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. As head of the Bomber Command, before his new appointment fortnight ago, he had been puncturing Hitler's boasts of German invulnerability with a threefold purpose: 1) to smash production and disrupt communications; 2) to render coastal ports useless as invasion springboards; 3) to crack German morale...