364 PLANES LOST
LUFTWAFFE’S WORST DAY
RIG GERMAN CEAIMS
LONDON, Jan. 2.
it is now estimated at Supreme Allied Headquarters that the Luftwaffe lost 364 planes to Allied fighters and ground defences during largescale operations yesterday. This is the greatest loss the Luftwaffe has suffered in one day since the outbreak of the war. Allied fighters destroyed 155 and the ground defences 209. Apart from the planes which raided the Royal Air Force aerodromes, about 600 were observed oyer the American sector. To-day’s German communique claims that 479 enemy planes were destroyed yesterday, comprising 300 destroyed on the ground and another 100 heavily damaged and 79 probably destroyed in combat. The German News Agency later corrected the Official estimate of Allied losses and claimed that the Allies losi a total of 579 planes.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21603, 4 January 1945, Page 5
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133364 PLANES LOST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21603, 4 January 1945, Page 5
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