AIRCRAFT LOSSES
British And Enemy Figures (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 27. While the R.A.F. offensive over Europe Is growing with ever-increasing violence, the figures for last week show that the Nazis lost the same number of machines as the R.A.F.--C4. This is all the more surprising when it is realized that the German antiaircraft efforts to protect the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau were on a very large scale and that the R.A.F attacks on them were carried out in daylight. The comparative totals in all theatres for the week ended at dawn on July 27 are 95 enemy machines, against 75 of the R.A.F. Over Britain, five German machines were lost, against one British plane. In the Middle East the Axis lost 13 and the British four, while the Navy destroyed 13 for the loss of six. During the same period the German High Compand claimed to have destroyed 127 British machines in the west alone, against the loss of seven.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 259, 29 July 1941, Page 8
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