AIRCRAFT LOSSES.
FIGURES FOR LAST WEEK. BALANCE AGAINST BRITAIN. (United Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, Oct, 19. The Royal Air ForcA during the week ended at dawn to-day lost 54 planes over Europe against 34 enemy ones. The discrepancy in losses is offset, and more than offset, by the military and industrial damage done day and night by the R.A.F. during the period. The power of holding the air initiative —as Britain clearly does in the west —.naturally prepares us for losses. Sporadic German raids on Britain have cost tile Luftwaffe three planes and Britain not one. In the Middle East the Axis lost six planes against live 1 . Here again the figures indicate that the initiative is possessed by the R.A.F., which has attacked military and 1 industrial objectives at. Naples, Syracuse, Benghazi, Tripoli, Dern.n, and many other places with devastating effect, while the Axis attacks have been sporadic and ' ineffectual. —British 'Official W relcss.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 8, 21 October 1941, Page 6
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