GREETINGS TO R.A.F.
13 SOVIET AIRMEN
COMMON CAUSE AGAINST
HITLERISM
LONDON, August 18.
In the correspondence columns of "The Times" appears a letter which has been sent by cable to the editor from Moscow by 13 Soviet airmen. It reads:
"Allow us to convey greetings to our colleagues—the yalorous airmen of Britain. Jointly with them we accomplish a common cause, retorting to each blow by the Nazi aircraft with an answering blow, and defending in air battles the honour, liberty, and independence of our native lands and the freedom of all mankind.
"Admiringly we follow the action of the. Royal Air Force in inflicting telling blows on the industrial centres and capital of the conceited Nazi Reich, refuting Goering's vaunting twaddle that no bomb would fall on the Ruhr. And the Soviet pilots, too, are fighting the foe.
"Friends, British airmen, let us smite the enemy still more strongly. Let each Nazi plane that dares to rise on its piratical flight be shot down and destroyed. Let us demolish the war plants and heavy industry of Hitlerite Germany. Let us utterly obliterate Hitler's gang of violators and murderers.
"Cordial greetings and wishes for the best of luck in our joint fight."
The signatories range from a brigade commander to second lieutenants.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 7
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