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Lord Dowding Asserts
He Stopped Air Aid to
France in May, 1940
•y th# A»eciet«d Prtu
LONDON, Sept. 13.—Only 100
British fighter planes, many of them
too slow to catch the Oerman bomb
ers. prevented a Nazi invasion of
England which was sure to come
if the "thin blue line” had failed in
the 1940 air battle of Britain, the
Air Ministry disclosed yesterday.
Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding,
who planned Britain’s defense in the
critical days of the air blitz, wrote
in an article in the London Gazette
that despite popular belief to the
contrary, the RAP Fighter Command
emerged from the battle seriously
weaker than when it took up the
Nazi challenge.
“If the fighter defense had failed
in the autumn of 1940 England
would have been invaded,” said the
article, published today in connec
tion with Britain’s forthcoming cele
bration of the anniversary of the
battle’s turning point. On Septem
ber 15, 1940, the RAP broke the
back of the German offensive by
shooting down 187 Nazi aircraft.
Stopped Planes for France.
Lord Dowding said he had pre
vailed on the war cabinet to cease
sending fighter plane reinforcements
to hard-pressed Prance in May, 1940.
"I know what it must have cost
the cabinet to reach this decision,”
he wrote, “but I am convinced that
this was one of the great turning
points of the war.”
But as the commander responsi
ble for the air defense of Britain, he
said, he "saw my resources slipping
away like sand in an hour glass,”
and was forced to decide against
the pressure for more and more
assistance to Prance.
The essence of German strategy,
he said, was to weaken British
fighter defenses to an extent which
would permit the German air arm
to give adequate support to a sea
borne invasion.
Nazis Used Red Cross Planet.
At the height of the battle the
Germans were using white float
planes marked with red crosses to
rescue their pilots from the Chan
nel, Lord Dowding said, and the
British government announced it
would not countenance the use of
Red Cross planes to rescue com
batants who might be used in battle
again.
He expressed the opinon, however,
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entitled to shoot British airmen de
scending in parachutes over Eng
land, who still were potential com
batants. Germans descending over
Britain, on the other hand, were
prospective prisoners of war and as
such were rightly regarded as im
mune from attack, he said.
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