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58o FLIGHT JUNE IITH, 1942 ENEMY AIR O May 31 June 1 .. 2 ,. 3 ,. 4 ,. 5 6 Totals : ver G.B 1 0 5 3 1 0 1 II LOSSES TO JUNE *th C North, 5.973 Over ontinent 6 6 9 7 1 7 1 37 Middle East 4 0 3 I 7 9 0 24 Middle East, over 3,929. able to the Eighth Army as the actual destruction wrought. Our losses in aircraft for the week have been remarkably light in spite of the fact that the Axis pilots had the advantage of being frequently able to choose their positions for attacking, from above, aircraft occupied in straf ing ground troops. On the other hand, our Hurricanes, Tomahawks, Kittyhawks and Spitfires repeatedly v smashed up fighter-escorted Stuka attacks on our own ground forces with trifling loss to themselves. And a number of our fighter pilots and WAR IN THE AIR bomber crews who were reported miss ing have since regained safety and qualified for membership of the Winged Boot Club. Dust storms have, on some days, practically grounded the air forces on both sides when, for a time, visibility was virtually nil. Jap Reverse 'T'HE smashing of the Japanese •*• assault upon Midway Island came as a particularly heartening piece of news last week-end and, naturally enough, was hailed with delight in America, where it is regarded as a '' bit of their own back'' for Pearl Harbour. At the time of writing, however, this sea-air battle and another in the North Pacific where the Japs attacked Dutch Harbour, Unalaska Island, in the Aleutians, are still raging, and while Admiral Nimitz, C.-in-C. American Pacific 1. BRITISH AIR Over G.B. A'crft. May 31 0 tune 1 0 „ 2 0 ,.3 0 ,.4 0 5 0 ,, 6 0 0 Totals : North, Over Continent B'brs. Ftrs. 8 0 32 12 14 9 10 6 0 3 13 6 9 3 36 39 3,937 ; Middle East, Middle East A'crft. 0 0 4 2 8 6 1 21 about 1,215. Fleet, has referred to the Midway encounter as "a momentous victory in the making," Admiral King, C.-in-C. U.S. Fleet, said that in the North they had '' none too clear a picture of what is going on." Japanese losses off Midway IslarrS were reported by Admiral Nimitz last Sunday as being two, or possibly three, aircraft carriers-destroyed with all their aircraft, and one or two other carriers badly damaged and most of their aircraft lost. Three battleships, four cruisers and three transports were also substantially damaged. THIS WAS COLOGNE : One of the first official photographs to be released of the widespread destruction caused by the RAF 's 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne on the night of May 3oth-3ist. The tre»lined thoroughfare running up the centre of the pictu're is the famous Luxemburger Strasse, one of the finest in the city, now hoTrfMeKby scenes of devastation. Note particularly the havoc caused in the railway depot and its immediate^icinity...HDtl\i\ia|Es of the city suffered a similar battering
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