BRITISH AIR LOSSES
ENEMY UNCERTAINTY
(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 15, 2 p.m.) RUGBY, October 14. While official R.A.F. figures show I that 855 British machines have been [lost since July 1, with 354 pilots safe, i the German propagandists are finding some difficulty in deciding the particular high figure they themselves shall announce in reply. The Deutschlander broadcast station, in a German home programme, relying on "well-informed German sources," claims that 3950 British machines have i been destroyed, while simultaneously a German talk in Portuguese, giving as its own special source "German High Command communique figures," gives a total of just over 2000 planes. Probably the Germans have been confused in their recount by the fact that they themselves have actually lost 2612 machines, brought down by British fighters, in the same neriod.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 92, 15 October 1940, Page 10
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