R.A.F.’S GREAT TRIUMPH
ONLY SMALL PROPORTION OF TOTAL STRENGTH USED MR CHURCHILL’S TRIBUTE TO FIGHTER COMMAND (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 16. (Received September 17, at .10.15 a.m.) Mr Churchill has sent a message to the R.A.F. Fighter Command on yesterday’s great triumph. He says yesterday eclipsed all previous records of the Fighter Command. Aided by a squadron of their Czech and Polish comrades, using only a small proportion of their total strength, and under cloud conditions of some difficulty, they cut to rags and tatters three separate waves of a murderous assault upon the civil population of their native land, inflicting a certain loss, of 125 bombers and 50 fighters upon the enemy, to say nothing of the “ probables,” those damaged, while themselves sustaining only a loss of 12 pilots and 25 machines. These results exceed all expectations and give just and sober confidence in the approaching struggle.
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Evening Star, Issue 23683, 17 September 1940, Page 7
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149R.A.F.’S GREAT TRIUMPH Evening Star, Issue 23683, 17 September 1940, Page 7
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