AIR BALANCE SHEET

Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 11

AIR BALANCE SHEET

BIG REVERSES FOR NAZIS R.A.F.'S GREAT RECORD (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 20. (Received September 21, at 9.15 a.m.) The heavy German losses in airmen over and around Britain, compared with the British, during September, are well illustrated by the fact that on Wednesday 48 enemy aircraft were destroyed, representing a lose of more than 100 German airmen, against three British pilots lost.

The aggregates of September losses to the eighteenth are 776 German aircraft, compared with 217 British machines, with 116 R.A.F.: pilots safe, made up as follows:

tons. She was escorted by small naval vessels and aircraft. The Sturgeon carried out a successful attack in spite of difficult conditions, light, and heavy weather. Torpedoes hit the enemy transport, from which came brilliant flashes of flame and a dense column of smoke. A few minutes later the whole ship hurst into flames.

“ When the Sturgeon came .to the surface some time later the transport had sunk and the German escort vessels were sweeping the water with searchlights in search of survivors.

“ It will be remembered that reports from Stockholm stated that a German transport was sunk by a British submarine off the Skaw on the evening of September 2, and that a very large number of German troops were killed. This was denied by the German wireless and official news agencies.”

a cs s= rd .S -3 . C C2 « £ 2 September 1 .. . 25 15 9 September 2 .. . 55 20 12 September 3 .. • 25 15 8 September 4 .. . 54 17 12 September 5 .. . 39 20 9 September 6 .. . 46 19 12 September 7 .. . 103 22 9 September 8 . 11 3 1 September 9 .. . 52 13 6 September 10 2 0 0 September 11 .. . 89 24 7 September 12 .. 3 0 0 September 13 .. . .2 0 o September 14 .. 18 9 6 September 15 .. 185 . 25 14 September 16 .. . 7 0 0 September 17 .. . 12 3 2 September 18 .. 48, 12 9 Totals . 776 217 116