ENEMY PLANES
DESTROYED OR DAMAGED BY BRITISH SHIPS & NAVAL ■ AIRCRAFT. DETAILED PARTICULARS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY, February 4. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. A V Alexander) stated in the House of Commons that from the beginning I of the war up to the end of last year. 642 enemy aircraft had been destroyed by British warships or merchant vessels, or by Fleet Air Arm, while 240 had’ been probably destroyed and 430 damaged; His Majesty’s ships had destroyed 405, probably destroyed 176 and damaged 239. For merchant vessels the figures were 94 destroyed, 42 probably destroyed and 96 damaged, and for the Fleet Air Arm 143 destroyed, 22 probably destroyed and 95 damaged. An earlier message spoke of 1,300 enemy planes destroyed by British ships and naval aircraft since the beginning of the war. From the above particulars it is clear that 1,300 is the total of enemy .planes destroyed, probably destroyed and damaged by ships and naval aircraft.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1942, Page 4
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166ENEMY PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1942, Page 4
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