Invasion Now?

Full-blast initiative in the war of nerves has belonged to the Allies ever since the African victory. But the Nazis still work at it. Latest product of Dr. Goebbels' propaganda factory is the much-advertised Britain." German Trained military seals "offensive-defensive in Berlin against talk freely about it to neutral correspondents and plenty is permitted to "leak" across Axis borders. Axis troops and small ships have been moved ostentatiously from Baltic to North Sea coasts. Hundreds of high-speed boats, some driven by airscrews, are reported concentrated in Antwerp and Rotterdam. Holland is said to be full of SS troops. U-boats are being concentrated in Danish ports.

It did not seem possible that the Nazis, hard-pressed in their Festung Europa, would attempt an invasion of Britain at this time. But there were some people in London who did believe that bullheaded SS youth might be prepared to make quick, suicidal raids. Such raids could serve the purposes of: disrupting Allied concentrations on British coasts ; gathering intelligence reports; bolstering Axis morale.

Box Score Lord Croft, Under Secretary for War, added up enemy plane losses over Britain since the war began: 4,198.

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