Enemy’s in Ratio of Nearly Four to One
AND 340 BRITISH PILOTS SAVED DETAILS FOR FIRST TEN DAYS OF PRESENT MONTH (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, October 11. Up to yesterday, a total of 2,613 enemy machines have been destroyed over and around the British Isles since the war began. The R.A.F. has lost 700 aircraft, from which 340 pilots were saved. So far this month the comparative figures of losses have been:— October I.—Five German, three British. October 2.—Ten German and one British. October 3.—Two German, no British. October 4,—Three German, one British. October s.—Twenty-four German, 9 British (seven pilots safe.) October 6.—One German, no British. October 7.—Twenty-seven German, 16 British (ten pilots safe.) October B.—Eight German, two British. October 9.—Four German, one British. October 10.—Five German, five'British (two pilots safe).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1940, Page 6
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