FIGURES OF PLANES DESTROYED
Still Much Against Enemy DESPITE INCREASED USE OF FIGHTERS LOSSES OF PILOTS AND CREWS EIGHT TO ONE IN BRITAIN’S FAVOUR (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) RUGBY, October 13. Despite an increased German use of fighters as light bombers, with the object of reducing the heavy losses they have been suffering in attacks on Britain, the numbers of German aircraft, the destruction of which in battles over Britain during the week ending at midnight on October 12 has been confirmed, were substantially higher than the British losses, while the ratio of pilots and crew losses is estimated to have been at least eight to one in the British favour. Sixty-six German machines were definitely brought down during this period. The R.A.F. lost 43 aircraft, but the pilots of 26 of these were saved.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1940, Page 6
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