HEAVY NAZI LOSSES
; CAMPAIGN IN POLAND ! NEUTRAL ESTIMATES (British Offic-iiil Wireless.) Reed. noon. • RUGBY, Oct. 20. It is officially staled that information reaching London from a reliable neutral source says that there is every reason to believe that the German losses of men and material during the Polish campaign were much heavier than appears from German official statements. It is said that tanks and mechanised vehicles, in particular, suffered severely, and of those which survived a | large number are in need of repair and will not be fit for service again ! for some months. I According lo the same source, the Polish air force acquitted itself with j quite remarkable courage. Pilots ! whose planes were disabled hardly lever altempled to escape by parachute, but deliberately crashed into one of the German machines so that both might be destroyed together.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 5
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