Witches’ Broom
They cooperated closely with the police and civil defense organizations and patrolled the River Thames and other waterways in outboard motorboats mounting Lewis guns. The prime minister was ideal in far more ways than a single, for the Battle of Britain was now raging more than eastern and southeastern England. German bomber formations had been overhead to soften up defenses preparatory to invasion, and Royal Air Force Fighter Command Spitfires and Hurricanes were scrambling hourly to repel them. Virnig’s low…