SHIPS & PLANES
HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES. LONDON, August 12. The correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain at Allied Headquarters says that the coastal air force in the Mediterranean destroyed last month more than 66,600 tons of Axis shipping, including a number of Italian warships.
It is announced that since the invasion of Sicily we have destroyed 418 enemy aircraft for the loss of 178 of ours. This figure does not include the Axis aircraft which have fallen into our hands.
A total of 999 Axis planes, many of which are still serviceable, has fallen into Allied hands on the captured Sicilian airfields. Reuter, commenting on this, says: “Our air attacks 1 from North Africa have drained away the Luftwaffe’s lifeblood.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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