WAR IN THE AIR
NAZIS' HEAVY LOSSES (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 20. 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 loss of more than 100 German airmen, against three British pilots lost. The aggregate 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:
Pilots Sept. German British safe 1 . 25 15 9 2 . 55 20 12 3" . . 25 15 8 4 . 5 4 17 12 5 . 3 9 20 1 9 6 7 . 46 . 103 19 22 Q . 12 - 9 1 8 9 . 11 . 52 0 13 -- 1 6 10 11 12■■;-. ■..-. . 2 . 39 . 3 0 ■.". 24 0 0 7' ' o: 13 .2 0. • 0 14. . . 18 .*. 9 6 15 ' . .185 25 14 1 6 . 7 0 0 1 7 « • . 12 3 2 1 8 * . . 48 12 9 Tote lis 776 217 116
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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173WAR IN THE AIR Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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