AXIS AIR LOSSES
TOTAL IN PAST WEEK
MOST ROUND BRITAIN
(Rec. 1 p.m.)
LONDON, May 18,
An Air Ministry communique states that there has been some slight activ-! ity by enemy aircraft round our coasts in daylight today, but that none has flown inland. Up to 7.30 p.m. there were no reports of any bombs dropped. " The Axis aircraft losses for the week ending at dusk yesterday totalled sill. Over Britain and round the British, coasts, Germany lost 68 planes and the R.A.F. 3. Over Germany and occupied territory the Germans lost 8 and the R.A.F. 21. In the Middle East the Axis losses were 13 planes in the air and 22 on the ground, while the R.A.F. lost 14.
The Navy meanwhile announced that 16 enemy aircraft were destroyed by his Majesty's ships in the Mediterranean between May 6 and May 12, one destroyed on May 14. and one now confirmed as destroyed.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 7
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