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AMERICAN AND BRITISH AIR LOSSES IN OFFENSIVE AGAINST WESTERN EUROPE AMERICAN WAR SECRETARY GIVES FIGURES (British' OlTleial Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.n .. RUGBY, October 28. . American plane losses in Hie European theatre average, loss than live per cent per inis-, sion Mr Stimson, War Secretary, said in Washington. This 'figure covered all lighter and bomber operations since the Eighth Air Force went into action in 1942. The British losses also were running' below live per cent, Mr son added. He said that a final examination of the October Schweinfurt raid showed that 86 enemy fighters were destroyed and 27 others probably destroyed, compared with a loss of sixty American bombers. He added that 501 American planes had recently raided Northern France airfields, inflicting heavy damage, without a single loss.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1943, Page 2
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134UNDER 5 PER CENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1943, Page 2
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