In the next week or two we flew up to London almost every day, sometimes twice a day, in order to give the overworked London squadrons a helping hand. They certainly needed it; the weight and intensity of these raids exceeded anything ever seen before. Day after day great masses of German bombers with enormous fighter escorts tried to battle their way through to the capital. Sometimes they were beaten back, sometimes a number of the bombers got through, always they suffered terrible losses. Day after day, battles of incredible ferocity were taking place, often at a height of five or six miles,
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