AXIS AIR LOSSES
HEAVY DRAIN IN SOUTHERN EUROPE TEN THOUSAND 111 TWELVE MONTHS (Kec,' noon.) RUGBY, October 22. Since the El Alamein battle the R.A.F. has destroyed, or claimed to have destroyed, 4,348 German aircraft in the Mediterranean area. In addition, 2,283 have been captured on the ground. Eighteen hundred Italian aircraft have been destroyed in combat and 1,600 accounted for on the ground. Thus in 12 months in southern Europe the enemy has lost over 10,000 aircraft.
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Evening Star, Issue 25003, 23 October 1943, Page 5
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78AXIS AIR LOSSES Evening Star, Issue 25003, 23 October 1943, Page 5
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