Anniversary Of Break In German Air Power
[British Official Wireless] (Rec. Noon.) RUGBY. September 15
While the German air force ruthlessly pounds the city of Leningrad by sheer weight of mass air attacks in an effort to reduce it to submission, it is recalled here that today is the anniversary of the record destruction of German machines by the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain twice on Sunday, September 15. 1940. Huge masses of planes crossed the Channel for the last throw in the air victory and 185 of them were sent crashing to the earth. One description at the time said that England was littered with the wrecks of German machines. The result was that the climax of the battle of Britain had been reached. The senseless terror raids on London continued with even greater ferocity, but the legend of the invincibility of Goering’s air force, so assiduously fostered by Nazi propaganda had been shattered. The first Allied victory of the war had been convincingly won by the Royal Air Force.
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Northern Advocate, 16 September 1941, Page 5
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