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AIRCRAFT LOSSES

STEADILY AGAINST ENEMY IN WESTERN EUROPE & MIDDLE EAST. TOTALS OF 72 AND 29. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 25. Axis aircraft losses during the week ending at dusk yesterday totalled 72. against 29 R.A.F. machines. Over Britain. and round the British coasts, the Germans lost eleven, of which two were by night, against the R.A.F.’s four. Over Germany and occupied territory, the Germans lost 6 and the R.A.F. 10, of which one was by night. In the Middle East the Axis lost 43 in the air and 10 on the ground, while the R.A.F. lost 15. One enemy aircraft was destroyed by a merchant ship on May 19, and one by his Majesty’s ships on May 13. BATTLE AT ODDS HURRICANE PILOT'S EXPLOIT. ONE MESSERSCHMITT SHOT DOWN & ANOTHER DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 25. Describing the destruction of an enemy fighter-bomber over the Channel, the Air Ministry News Service states: “Two Hurricanes met eleven Messerschmitts a few hundred feet above Calais before breakfast this morning, and a few moments later one Messerschmitt 110 crashed into the sea. The successful Hurricane pilot, a sergeant aged nineteen, then went into a cloud and emerged to find himself stalking a cluster of Messerschmitt 109’s. He fired at one in a right hand turn and shot its wing tip off. When last seen the enemy was staggering back into a cloud, badly damaged."

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1941, Page 6

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AIRCRAFT LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1941, Page 6

AIRCRAFT LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1941, Page 6

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