GERMAN LOSSES
IMAGINATIVE FIGURES ISSUED IN COMMUNIQUE (Official Wireless) (Received July 27, 3.15 p.m.) RUGBY, July 26 Attention has been drawn on many occasions to the somewhat imaginative figures of air losses contained in German High Command communiques. A further illustration of this is found by comparing German and British official communiques for the period from July 13 to July 26 inclusive. One hundred and ten enemy aircraft were definitely destroyed during this period, but the Gennan communiques admit the loss of only 37. They also claim that no fewer than 130 of our aircraft were lost in action, against the true figure 55. These figures show, as on previous occasions when this comparison has been made, that the Germans have adopted the simple expedient of dividing their own losses by three and multiplying the British by two or mortf. It is interesting to note that even the Germans have shunk from attempting to maintain the ration of five to one in their favour during the last fortnight, but today they actually appropriated the figure of 23 from this morning’s British communique and used it for their own.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 8
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188GERMAN LOSSES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 8
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