GERMAN LOSSES
NAZI PLANS MISCARRIED BRITISH HIGH COMMAND ALLEGATIONS OF DIFFERENCES (United Pror-s Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received August 15, 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 14 Germany intended that massproduced Messerschmitt fighters should keep Spitfires and Hurricanes so busy that bombers would largely be unmolested, but the figures from a Royal Air Force score-sheet show that the German losses of bombers and fighter-bombers on Sunday were 22, Monday 30, Tuesday 64. The German losses of fighters and other planes on Sunday were 44, Monday 32, and Tuesday 14. Simultaneously with this statement the Berlin correspondent of the American Press states that the radio reported from Stockholm that British pursuit planes have been ordered to attack only German bombers and withdraw on the appearance of German pursuit or destroyer planes.
The announcer said that this is Lord Beaverbrook’s policy, expressed at a conference with the High Command, in order to save pursuit planes for the invasion of Berlin. The radio, in alleging differences with the British Air Command, affirms that Viscount Gort and other commanders have attacked Lord Beaverbrook for his insistence that the British fighter force must be spared, whereas Viscount Gort urged more decisive activity by the fighters.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21192, 15 August 1940, Page 7
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