Battle of Heligoland Bight: The Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe's Baptism of Fire by Robin Holmes

Author:Robin Holmes [Holmes, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: World War 2 / Aviation, HIS027100
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
Published: 2010-01-19T05:00:00+00:00

The populace is still a little bit puzzled about how the big victory of the Graf Spee suddenly ended by the pocket-battleship scuttling itself off Montevideo yesterday afternoon. But Goebbels and Göring have pulled a neat one to make them forget it as soon as possible. The attention of the German people tomorrow morning will be concentrated by the press and radio on something else, an alleged victory – this time in the air – off Heligoland. An official statement which the papers and radio have been told to bang for all it’s worth says that 34 out of 44 British bombers were shot down this afternoon north of Heligoland. A very timely victory. We had just left the evening press conference after firing embarrassing questions about the Graf Spee and were putting on our overcoats downstairs when Dr Boehmer rushed in breathlessly and said he had some big news and would we please return upstairs to the conference room. Then he read us in breathless tones the communiqué about the 34 British planes being shot down. Suspect it is eyewash.

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