WEEK OF DISASTER
FOR ENEMY AIRCRAFT ATTACKING MALTA
114 DEFINITELY. SHOT DOWN.
SCORES OF OTHERS CRIPPLED,
(Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 19. In the week ended on October 17 the enemy lost 114 aircraft in assaults on Malta for a British loss of 27 Spitfires, with 14 pilots saved. The enemy made some 1,400 sorties against the island. Thus approximately one in 13 of the hostile aircraft which set out from Sicily, failed to return. This takes no account of scores of others which were so crippled that they had little hope of getting home. Never before had pilots destroyed so many enemy planes in. one ,week around Malta.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1942, Page 3
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114WEEK OF DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1942, Page 3
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