631 VICTIMS IN AUGUST
U.S.A.A.F. RECORD
LONDON, September 1
United States headquarters announces that the Eighth Army Air Force got a record bag of 631 enemyplanes during August. Fortresses shot down 541, and Marauders and Thunderbolts accounted for the rest. A hundred Fortresses" were lost during August, less than 5 per cent.i of the number sent out' and only slightly more than the 4 per cent, lost in July. Headquarters regards the : use of Thunderbolts in escorting Fortresses in raids over Europe as having been vindicated. The Thunderbolts; destroyed 88 enemy fighters last month, andonly IS, of the American machines were los 4. ■' .: ■ ■ . ■ . ■ ■:
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1943, Page 6
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