RELATIVE LOSSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1941, Page 5

RELATIVE LOSSES

AIR & SEA WARFARE FIGURES FOR 1940. HEAVY CUT IN GERMANY'S AIR STRENGTH. (British Official Wireless.) : (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, January 2. ■ A detailed analysis of the figures of i British and enemy losses in the air I and sea warfare during 1940, which is j now available, shows that 2,993 Gerj man aeroplanes were shot down over I Britain, at a cost of 847 British lighti ers. Anti-aircraft gunfire accounted i for 444 Nazi machine:-; over Britain, ' the greatest number fur a single day ( being 23. which the guns brought down "ii August 15. Over German-occupied • territories, the R.A.F. lost 374 bornbi (*rs and 28 more at sea. but G 3 Ger- : man planes were destroyed by British : bombers during these operations. ; _ In actions with the Italian air force. I figures available up to December 26 i sh(jw that 416 Italian machines have been destroyed by British Mrerafl in ; combat, the R A F. Im es being 75 i ihe Elect Air Arm's returns are carried up to December 1, and show that 52 enemy aircraft were destroyed for . certain; 10 are believed to have been i shot down but are unconfirmed, and 48 were damaged. Hamm continues to be the most raided town m Germany, having sustained 82 atlaclts, while Hamburg come-, second with 46 Berlin was raided :i5 umes. figures are also given of losses in combat during kind campaigns ! i:i '•Giich the RAF and the Luftwaffe 1 j have been ■ mgaged In the Norwegian ' I campaign, losses were ahum equal, the ] R A F. losing 55 and the l.uHwmfc 56 On the Uesiero Front and in France |tb4 Nazi machines were u’estroved in’ i combat, id a east of 375 British planes. , I German sea kisses do not include a i specific number of .submarines claim-! . '‘ :i have been destroyed during the j .year. Neither !s , 1!)y fl)r > . damage ihllkted Nazi miv.M units Hitler;; heel, however | l( < J ‘cruisers, twelve d.-irov..;-,, and J i ntUDlh'T i>( KHiulk’T Vessels The It.dl.m 1. - ... V.. ie )e-„\ e: v, .th I '’lie cruiser, (dev<n d.- t-.-.nd , • west JI submarines, while , -,J three b.it-.b-b.m,. , - fleet auxiliaries at Taranto included i m addition. Losses, to the British fleet w-re torcraf t-carncr. thr> • - croi-a----; ' ■* med merchant ci.. . ■ . / ... ■. .... and 21 submarine.’' In .’lecordaner i with settled policy, damage is not