222 LAST WEEK
NAZI PLANE LOSSES
CREWS AT LEAST 550
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received October 1, 2 p.m.)
RUGBY, September 30.
The German- losses of aircraft in the attacks on Britain vary so greatly, from the enormous figures of days when the Luftwaffe comes over in force to the smaller figures when only a few enemy aircraf.t make reconnaissance flights, that periodic totalling is necessary in order to gain an idea of the punishment the German air force is taking from the R.A.F.
During the -week ended midnight on September 28 it is confirmed that the German aircraft losses were 222 machines in batl les over Britain, apart from machines; damaged and believed to have been destroyed, whose loss could not be definitely confirmed by the careful methods of checking claims employed by the Air Ministry.
The R.A.F. lost 69 planes in the same period, but 37 of the pilots were saved.
It is estimated that the German crew losses from aeroplanes whose loss is confirmed alone total not less than 550.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 80, 1 October 1940, Page 8
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