NAZIS’ HEAVY PRICE
VERY EXPENSIVE RAIDS 2170 PLANES IN WAR SUPERIORITY OF BRITISH (omcial Wireless) (Received Sept. 17. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 16 Yesterday’s destruction of enemy aircraft (185) represents the heaviest toll the German Air Force has paid cn any one day since the Battle of Britain opened. The previous highest total was 181. exactly a month i earlier, on August 15. | The German air attacks on Britain ! have proved extremely expensive, and with each new a.vault have dem--1 onstrated the superiority of the Royal Air Force and the rapidly-growing j efficacy of the British ground de- ! fences. ! Since the beginning of the war 2170 enemy planes have been destroyed over Britain. In the same period 553 British aircraft have been I lost ever Britain, but 259 of the pilots of the latter have been saved.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 5
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137NAZIS’ HEAVY PRICE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 5
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