Complete Clue List
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4. Port with famous white cliffs
6. Order to Fighter Command squadron
8. A South African tour by the New Zealand rugby ____ was cancelled due to the war
9. A German aircraft with designation He.
11. City that fell on 14th June
13. Negative reply
14. Air Officer Commanding 11 Group, Keith ____
17. Flying branch of the Royal Navy (abbr.)
19. The first 'ack' of 'ack-ack' stood for this
20. The R in ARP stood for this
21. Dominant aerial event of the summer months (6, 2, 7)
23. Popular song, 'We'll ____ Again'
24. On 14th November, the Luftwaffe tried to ____ Coventry to the ground (var. spelling)
26. Biography of fighter pilot Douglas Bader, 'Reach for the ___'
28. At Dunkirk, soldiers had to ____ into the water
30. Interrogative word, perhaps used by pilots of 242 (Canadian) Squadron
32. Junkers 87
33. Pilot who wrote 'The Last Enemy', _____ Hillary
34. '...a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the ___ ...catalogue of human crime' (Churchill, 13 May)
37. Obsolescent RAF two-seater fighters
38. Air Officer Commanding 10 Group, Sir C.J.Q. _____
Down
1. Pilot with five or more victories
2. What the K in German squadron designation KG stood for
3. Popular actress of the time, Merle _____
4. Be shot down over water, come down 'in the _____' (slang)
5. Belgian fort, captured by German paratroops in May, ____ Emael
6. General's advisers
7. British gunners (abbr.)
10. Major target of the Blitz
12. Galland reputedly asked Goering for a squadron of these
15. German industrial valley, target for RAF Bomber Command on 15th May
16. French port defended by British 30th Infantry Brigade 22nd to 26th May
18. Lord Beaverbrook's family name
21. Junkers 88 or Dornier 17, for example
22. British forces entertainment group (acronym)
25. Nickname of Air Chief Marshal Dowding, AOC-in-C Fighter Command
27. Members of RAF Eagle Squadron (slang)
28. RAF sector station in Essex, North _____
29. Later name for RDF
31. Yesterday, to General Weygand
35. Indefinite article
36. The 3rd Battalion of this armoured unit was at 16 Down in May (abbr.)