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		<title>Low level air attack in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://ww2today.com/17th-may-1941-low-level-air-attack-in-iraq</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 11:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In any case, a really low cross-country flight is a wonderful experience. It is the only time one can get the feeling of an aeroplane's terrific speed. The ground streaks past under the wings unbelievably fast. Different coloured patches of sand flow b...]]></description>
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		<title>Second ‘Eagle Squadron’ formed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By day, the usual enemy reconnaissances were flown, and defensive fighter patrols were maintained over the Dover Straits and over coastal areas. A number of small-scale offensive daylight sweeps covered Kent and South and South-West Coastal regions; ou...]]></description>
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		<title>RAF fighters go on offensive</title>
		<link>http://ww2today.com/28th-february-1941-raf-fighters-go-on-offensive</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[February 1941]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our fighter patrols operated over Northern France on five days. Few enemy aircraft were encountered, but A.A. fire was generally heavy and accurate. On the 25th and 26th, an escort and screen was provided for a small bomber force which attacked shippin...]]></description>
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		<title>RAF and RAAF control the skies over Libya</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[December 1940]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our fighters have continued to maintain their ascendancy over the Italian Air Force. On the 26th Gladiators of the Royal Australian Air Force shot down without loss two, and probably six, of a number of C.R. 42 fighters "which were escorting a bomber f...]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Dowding is retired from the RAF</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet the reserved uncharismatic, Dowding, nicknamed "Stuffy", was not popular amongst the higher echelons of the RAF. Some argued that he was not a sufficiently personable leader and should be spending more time visiting the front line Squadrons. There ...]]></description>
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		<title>Spitfire versus Messerschmitt 109s</title>
		<link>http://ww2today.com/30th-october-1940-spitfire-versus-messerschmidt-109s</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1940]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[October 1940]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ One Messerschmitt did a barrel roll to the left. I fired at him as he did so, and he dropped back. I was then engaged from astern, and lost a bit of ground. By the time we got to Hastings I had caught up the rest of them again, and knocked bits off on...]]></description>
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		<title>A multi-national Royal Air Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the German invasion of Poland he flew reconnaissance missions in an unarmed trainer aircraft but managed to take the fight to the enemy by throwing hand grenades out of his aircraft at columns of troops. He survived being shot down and was order...]]></description>
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		<title>Douglas Bader leads the &#8216;Big Wing&#8217; into attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They were directed to enemy aircraft by A.A. fire and made a perfect approach with the Spitfires between the Hurricanes and the sun and the E/A below and down sun. The Hurricanes had to wait until Spitfires and Hurricanes already engaging the enemy bro...]]></description>
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		<title>Spitfire versus Dornier</title>
		<link>http://ww2today.com/11th-september-1940-spitfire-versus-dornier</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things are starting to get rough. Automatically I have followed my self-imposed drill that I always do at times like this. Reflector sight on; gun button to fire; airscrew pitch to 2,650 revs; better response. Press the emergency boost over- ride, lowe...]]></description>
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		<title>Spitfire versus Messerschmitt</title>
		<link>http://ww2today.com/3rd-september-1940-spitfire-versus-messerschmitt</link>
		<comments>http://ww2today.com/3rd-september-1940-spitfire-versus-messerschmitt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then, just below me and to my left, I saw what I had been praying for - a Messerschmitt climbing and away from the sun. I closed in to 200 yards, and from slightly to one side gave him a two-second burst: fabric ripped off the wing and black smoke pour...]]></description>
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		<title>303 Squadron’s first combat patrol</title>
		<link>http://ww2today.com/31st-august-1940-303-squadrons-first-combat-patrol</link>
		<comments>http://ww2today.com/31st-august-1940-303-squadrons-first-combat-patrol#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[August 1940]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 'A' Flight, at 16,000 ft east of Biggin Hill, saw about 60 Dorniers going east, protected by fighters. The bombers were in tight vics with sections of Me109s circling around them. Some fighters were covering them above. 'A' Flight attacked out of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricanes attack bombers head on</title>
		<link>http://ww2today.com/26th-august-1940hurricanes-attack-bombers-head-on</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ease the throttle to reduce the closing speed - which anyway allowed only a few seconds' fire. Get a bead on them right away, hold it, and never mind the streams of tracer darting overhead. Just keep on pressing on the button until you think you're goi...]]></description>
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