Our Claims Of Enemy Air Losses Conservative
\British Official Wirelcssl (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, August 15
The Minister for Information states that in calculating enemy air losses the utmost care is taken to ensure that no claim is made unless it is fully substantiated by incontrovertable evidence.
Striking confirmation of the conservative character of the British claims is given by official Italian air force casualty lists.
Thus in July. 1940, the total of Italian aircraft claimed to have been destroyed by the R.A.F. —76—was confirmed. Of these a number were destroyed on the ground, that is to say. without their pilots. Confirmed fay Italy.
The Italian casualty lists for July admit the loss of 76 pilots killed and missing—a number exceeding the total claimed by the R.A.F.
Between June 10 and August 8 the R.A.F. claimed to have destroyed 156 aircraft, including some machines on the ground. The Italian casualty list issued on August 8, which probably did not include recent casualties, admitted the less of 146 pilots killed and missing.
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Northern Advocate, 16 August 1940, Page 5
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