COMPARATIVE AIR LOSSES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 28 October 1941, Page 5

COMPARATIVE AIR LOSSES

I BRITISH AND AXIS FIGURES Rugby, Oct. 26. Comparative air losses during the j last week show that Britain, steadily , j attacking, lost 48 machines, while the "■ 1 Axis, on the defensive or undertaking ie j only small operations, lost 34. J j Over Britain, during activity on a IS i small scale, the Germans lost five ’ j bombers at night and two by day. ” j The R.A.F. has operated daily and nightly over occupied territory. EspeJ cially widespread raids were made on ie j the night of 21st-22nd October, when | night fighters attacked aerodromes in c j | Fiance and Holland and Coastal Com - mand aircraft bombed Lorient, Brest . ; and a harbour and fuel stores in Den- *! mark. Brest was visited on three suc,s | cessive nights and Le Havre on two 10 ; successive nights. Among the daylight | sweeps were a successful attack by t } the Coastal Command on a seaplane , r j base and factory in northern Den t _ j mark, attacks on supply ships off the II I Dutch coast and shipping off Norway , s !ond the Netherlands, and on trains, r _ military buildings and positions in „ t ! northern France. y j Over Germany, Bremen was heav jl ] ily raided on the night of 20th-21st t _ October, and again the following night. Wilhelmshaven, Emden, Mannheim w i and targets in north-west Germany 3t(and the Rhineland were also visited, s, | Thirty-seven British aircraft—l 3 flghtie ers and 24 bombers—are missing, but ie 1 four pilots are safe, while the Germans id lost 23 fighters. Is | In the Middle East the R.A.F. lost I eleven to four Axis machines.—B.O.W.