ENEMY LOSSES
ESTIMATED AT 110,000. AXIS OUTCLASSED HOPELESSLY IN AIR. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 30. Mr Drew Middleton, the “New. York Times” correspondent at Allied Headquarters, estimates the total enemy losses in killed, wounded and missing at 110,000. The Axis air force in Sicily continues conspicuously absent, says a Reuter correspondent. The hilly country the enemy now holds is unsuitable for preparing landing grounds. The enemy's planes are operating on a small and ineffective scale from the Italian mainland. Allied dive-bombers, light bombers and fighter-bombers, escorted by Spitfires, are regularly flying over the Axis lines, invariably without loss. Within a few hours of their arrival in Sicily the first R.A.F. night fighter squadron to operate from occupied territory bagged their 30th plane since the invasion of Sicily began.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1943, Page 3
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