R.A.F. SUPERIORITY
FIGURES TELL STORY. REMARKABLE COMPARISON. Press Association —Copyright) (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 12 noon) RUGBY, Mar. 23 The growing R.A.F. superiority is shown in the results of air encounters in the various theatres of Avar during the week ended dawn on Saturday. The figures are:— OVER- AND AROUND BRITAIN. German losses ....' o British 3t tßut two pilots safe. OVER ENEMY TERRITORY. German losses 3 British losses ■• 2 MIDDLE EAST. Axis losses ••• 23 Imperial losses 6t tßut one pilot safe. One of H.AI. ships meanwhile destroyed one enemy aircraft during the week ended noon on Saturday. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique says that just before, dark last night enemy aircraft dropped bombs near'the East .Coast. They did a little damage and caused casualties.
Shortly afterwards an enemy aircraft was destroyed by anti-aircraft fire. Since then there has been nothing to report. Two enemy bombers, it is learned in London, were destroyed to-day—one by anti-aircraft fire in the North of Scotland and the other by fighters in the south of England.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 24 March 1941, Page 7
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