ENEMY AIR LOSSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1940, Page 6

ENEMY AIR LOSSES

STILL ON LIMITED SCALE. CAUTIOUS COMMENT BY “TIMES.” (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY. April 4. The fact that the total number of enemy aircraft brought down since the outbreak of wAr in Britain and home waters yesterday reached 52. against the loss of only one R.A.F. machine, is regarded a.s highly satisfactory, although "The Times” says ”11. would bo foolish Io exaggerate either the scale or nature of the losses inflicted upon these tip and run raiders. The Joss in raiding machines,” it adds, “is negligible to an Air Force of any size, and the only feauturcs of the story deserving any emphasis are the loss of trained crews, the technical disparity at the moment between German bombers of the types used, and British fighters, and the complete discrediting of the German claim to be masters of the North Sea. Nor must it bo thought that casualties in all kind-: of air operations arc so one-sided or that the strength of the Gt-rman Air Force as a whole i.: neeessarilv an exploded myth.