R.A.F.'S JUNE RECORD
SUCCESSFUL MONTH
ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED
(Rec. 10.30 a.m.)
RUGBY, July 1
June has been a particularly successful month for the K.A.F., the total enemy aircraft destroyed reaching 210. This includes 55 Vichy aircraft destroyed on the Syrian front.
During June there was again considerable activity in the Western Desert. Forty-four German aircraft were destroyed by the ground strafing of advanced enemy aerodromes. In addition 43 enemy machines, mostly German, were shot down in aerial combat.
Attempts by the Italian and German air forces to reconnoitre and raid Malta met with scant success, and during the month 27 enemy aircraft were shot down over the island.
The losses of the Imperial air forces in the Middle East during June amounted to 65 aircraft, but several crews and individual pilots were saved. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 2, 2 July 1941, Page 7
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