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LONDON--The Royal Air Force and Nazi Luftwaffe traded some of their heaviest blows today with the RAF heaping destruction on Cologue and the invasion ports and German bombers subjecting damaged Portsmouth to its most savage attack...
Apparently delivering the first installment of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's promise to "drep three or four tons of bombs on Germany for every ton dropped on Britain," the RAF was maintaining the destructive pace of its seven-day-old aerial offensive...
Four enemy aircraft were shot down during the days "wide-spread offensive operations of the RAF," the Air Ministry said...
Casey stated that despite the strain of constant bombings, British civilian morale is admirable. The recent activity in the Mediterranean and of the RAF in bombing military objectives in Germany, must both be regarded as "plus points" in favor of Britain and her allies...
Adolf Hitler's attempt at the a sea-borne invasion of Britian was said by the air ministry to have been fustrated on Sept. 16 when RAF bombers laid siege to his massed transports and forced the Nazi troops to abandon ship...