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284 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED DURING RAIDS ON BRITAIN. FURTHER LARGE NUMBER DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.53 a.m.) RUGBY, July 26. The Air Ministry announcement that 2-3 enemy aircraft were destroyed round the coasts of Britain during yesterday brings the total since June 8 to 216 and since the beginning of the war to 284 enemy aircraft, definitely known to have been destroyed, apart from a large number damaged and not expected to return to their bases. The German losses yesterday included at least 3 machines shot down by anti-aircraft defences.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1940, Page 5
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