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Total of 222 Planes Lost Over Britain Last Week CREW LOSSES NOT LESS THAN 550 MEN THIRTY-TWO BRITISH PILOTS KILLED (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, September 30. German losses of aircraft in attacks on Britain vary so greatly from the enormous figures of days when the Luftwa e comes over in force to smaller figures when only ; a few enemy aircraft make reconnaissance flights that periodic totalling is necessary in order to gain an idea of the punishment the German Air Force is taking from the R. A.F. During the week ending at midnight on September 28, it is confirmed that German aircraft losses were 222 machines in battles over Britain, apart from machines damaged and believed to be destroyed, whose loss could not definitely be confirmed by the careful methods of checking claims employed by the Air Ministry. The R.A.F. lost 69 planes in the same period, but 37 of the pilots were saved. It is estimated that German crew losses from the aeroplanes whose loss has been confirmed alone were not less than 550.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 6
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