AIR WARFARE
ENEMY’S HEAVY LOSSES IN MIDDLE EAST.
NEARLY 1,500 PLANES IN LAST
SIX MONTHS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, July 1
It is officially computed that in the first six months of 1941, the Imperial Air Forces destroyed on the ground or shot down 1,453 aircraft in the course of operations in the Middle East. June was a particularly successful month, the total of enemy aircraft destroyed reaching 210. This includes 55 Vichy aircraft destroyed on the Syrian front. During June there was again considerable activity in the Western Desert. Forty-four German aircraft were destroyed by the ground strafing of advanced enemy aerodromes, in addition to 43 enemy machines, mostly German, shot down in aerial combat.
Attempts by the Italian and German air forces to reconnoitre and raid Malta met with scant success, and during the month 27 enemy aircraft were shot down over the island. The losses of the Imperial air forces in the Middle East during June amounted to 65 aircraft, but several crews and individual pilots were saved.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1941, Page 5
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