THOUSAND PLANES
LOST BY THE GERMANS
fa Attacks on Britain During Present Month
FIFTY-THREE BROUGHT DOWN YESTERDAY FIFTEEN BRITISH FIGHTERS LOST, BUT FIVE PILOTS SAFE (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Dav, 12.35 p.m.) RUGBY, August 3.1. An Air Ministry communique states that reports received up to 10 p.m. show that 53 enemy aircraft were destroyed on Friday. Fifteen of our fighters were lost, but five of the pilots are safe. It is now known that the total number of enemy aircraft destroyed on Thursday was eleven.
THE NUMBER OF ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN AIR ATTACKS ON THIS COUNTRY THIS MONTH NOW EXCEEDS A THOUSAND.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 8
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104THOUSAND PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 8
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