500 NAZI PLANES
DESTROYED BY RUSSIANS AT COST OF 262, IN FIGHTING OF LAST SIX DAYS. LONDON, August 29. The destruction of 500 German planes during the past six days is reported in a Russian communique. In the same period the Russians lost 262 planes. ■ GERMAN CLAIMS THE CAPTURE OF TALLINN. DESTRUCTION OF TRANSPORTS ALLEGED. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. A special German statement announcing the capture of Tallinn, said that troops, in conjunction with the Navy and Air Force, took Tallinn after hard fighting. The troops in the same day advanced to Paldiski, which is equipped in a very modern way, and captured it also, with several thousand prisoners and six coastal batteries. In the port of Tallinn nineteen transports laden with troops and war materials, were also destroyed. Nine other warships had been sunk, the heavy cruiser Kirov destroyed, and five other warships seriously damaged (the announcement does not state by whom).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 6
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157500 NAZI PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 6
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