Daily Post - 13.12.1941, Side 3

DAJLLY t*OST
Commissions in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (W.A.A.F.) of
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Britain are being offered to women as weather-forecasters in the
Meteorological Branch, the qualifications required being a science
degree in mathematics or physics. Training of a highly special-
ised character is given after acceptance. Approved candidates
are posted to R.A.F. stations as forecasting officers. Here, an
Australian memiber of the W.A.A.F. is seen at a school making
observations with a Theodolite.
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DP THE GARDEN
PATH
By George
Defaulters in the 51st Cross
Bows will, as a variation from
the uSual monotony of jankers,
push a sledge and my friend
Colonel Brass-Hattery until
such time as he has had enough
exercise. Battalion orders also
point out that under no circ-
umstances will defaulters be
allowed to rest their feet on the
runners.
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As a special Christmas treat,
«ce pudding will be sprinkled
With sugar if and when obtain-
able, and a greater proportion
°f pips will be allowed to the
jam ration.
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Why not start a Hollywood
Bivision? Think of the number
°f actors trained in the use of
revolvers and tommy-guns, the
he-merí who fire machine-guns
ftom the hip and normally wipe
°ut companies single-handed,
ihe dashing young heroes who
§ain a medal in every fight and
^in battles, glories and girls
cvery time they stick out their
jaws.
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Anyone seen to be suffering
from decayed sunburn, yellow
laundice or severe nicotine
Poisoning may now be suspect-
ed as a spy.
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Boris our Tame Fifth Col-
^^rínist has it that people queue
UP for days awaiting the leave
^oat. in the hope that just one
kitbag may split operu He also
Says that young women seen
^oaring real silk stockings
after the leave party has dis-
Ombarked are shunned by the
^ore respectable families.
Berhaps it’s just ás well
Cleneral Hideki Tojo decided to
fight. He will always help to
ftiake Hitler and Mussolinl feel
less alone and deserted when
tbey
sit on the wrong side of
peace conference table.
^CGlýsIÐ f DAILY POST!
New Figtaters
New Techniqne
New type fighters introduCed
into the R.A.F. since the war
began have brought about
changes -in the technique of
their pilots as striking if not as
obvious as the changes which
have come about in the tactical
use of fightter aircraft.
Compared with a year ago
R.A.F. fighter aircraft have al-
most completely changed their
role from defence to offence.
With the enemy’s preoccu-
pation in Russia, and the loss
of their previous numerical
superiority, the initiative in the
air has for the time being at
least passed from the Germans.
Spitfires that used to sit ex-
pectantly on forward aero-
dromes, or patrol the skies
above English fields and the
English Channel ready to swoop
at invading Nazis, now carry
the offensive against the ene- :
my many miles from their
home bases, often in company
with fast day bombers.
HURRICANE BOMBERS
Hurricanes, equipped with
their new and heavier arma-
ment, or carrying a mixed load
of machine guns and bombs,
range far over the enemy-
occupied lands and the narrow
seas facing Britain’s south-east
coast. Their prey is anything
from a German freighter to a
machine-gun post. Long range
fighters have carried the “air
umbrella” for bombers oper-
ating as far afield as Antwerp.
.These tactical changes in the
employment of Britain’s fight-
ers are largely due to the alt-
ered strategical situation.
which, for the first time since
the war, is in the R.A.F.’s fav-
our. And they have been made
possible of exploitation by
technical improvements in the
aircraft employed for the job.
Speed, armament. ceiling and
range of the modern fighter
have all been raised — in the
familiar Spitfires and Hurri-
canes no less than in the new
types reported to have been in
action, the British Beaufighters
and Whirlwinds, and the Am-
erican Airacobras. Similar pro-
gress may be counted upon in
the Typhoons and others not
yet announced.
HIGHER CEILINGS
Higher ceilings have present-
ed their own set of problems —
human as well as mechanical.
The latest Me. 109 probably has
a ceiling of about 41,000 feet —
nearly eight miles. Without
giving details of what new
British fighters can achieve it
is obvious that the R.A.F. is not
likely to concede to the enemy
an advantage in height to offset
the other advantages British
fighters have so far maintained.
Above 38/39,000 feet air crews
suffer a good deal of discom-
fort, even with oxygen. Addit-
ional aids and a special techn-
ique become necessary to en-
able fighters to operate with
the fullest control.
Restaurant Logberg
by Bakery Camp.
Meals, Coffee, Tea, Beer, Mineral water.
Male Voice Choir
(formerly Y.M.C.A.) gives a Concert in Gamla Bíé
Sunday, the 14th, at 2,30 p. m. Tickets obtainable
in the Eymundsen booksbop (near the Garden Re-
stanrant), at ísafold (next to Btorgunblaðið) and
at the Door