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GERMANS’ HEAVY LOSSES

185 NAZI RAIDERS SHOT DOWN MURDEROUS ASSAULT UPON CIVILIANS MR CHURCHILL CONGRATULATES BRITISH FLIERS (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 17, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 16 The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, has sent the following message to the Royal Air Force Fighter Command on yesterday’s great triumph. “ Yesterday eclipsed all previous records of the Fighter Command. Aided hy a squadron of their Czech and Polish comrades, using only a small proportion of their total strength, and under cloud conditions of some difficulty, they cut to rags and tatters three separate waves of the murderous assault upon the civil population of their native land, inflicting the certain loss of 135 bombers and 50 fighters upon the enemy, to say nothing of ‘probables’ and damaged, while themselves sustaining only the loss of twelve pilots and 25 machines. “ These results exceed all expectations and give a just and sober confidence in the approaching struggle.” Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air, has passed the following message to the Coastal Command: “I have been, asked by the War Cabinet to convey to all squadrons of the Coastal Command its admiration of the skill and courage with which they carried out the arduous but often unspectacular tasks allotted to them and of the enterprise and success with which in recent days they have struck at the harbour, shipping and coastal defences of the enemy. ’

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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 5

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GERMANS’ HEAVY LOSSES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 5

GERMANS’ HEAVY LOSSES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 5

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