10,000 AXIS PLANES DOWN
ESTIMATE FOR PERIOD OF WAR
P.A. Gable.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.
Ten thousand Axis aircraft have been brought down during the war, not counting heavy enemy losses in Russia, the Far East and the Pacific. This figure is given by the English magazine, Aeroplane, which pays a tr,ibute to the United States Air Force. Referring to the heavy toll of German fighters taken by Flying Fortresses and Liberator bombers in the recent raici on Lille, the paper says that United States rnachines are winning successes with a weapon the R.A.F. never possessed — the .5 ma-chine-gun. The R.A.F. is equipped cnly with .303 machine-guns and 20 millimetre cannon.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 2
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