Enemy: by fighters, bombers 57 destroyed, 14 probable, 17 
      damaged; fighters: 62 destroyed, 20 probable, 23 damaged; unidentified, 
      34 destroyed, 21 probable, 23 damaged by A.A., unidentified 3 
      destroyed, 6 probable, totals 161 destroyed, 61 probable, 58 
      damaged.
 
      
 
 
British: 34 fighters shot doom (18 pilots lost). Two Blenheims, 
      1 Whitley (in sea) missing. Four damaged on ground during attack 
      on aerodrome .
 
      
 
 
Last night air activity was slight and chiefly confined to 
      single aircraft. Some bombs were dropped in Birmingham district 
      and production at a motor factory has been interrupted probably 
      for ten days. One bomb hit Bristol Aircraft Factory but little 
      damage caused.
 
      
 
 
Considerable air transport activity August 14th from Cologne, 
      Berlin, Leipzig to aerodromes at Paris and Brussels. Recent activities 
      of German Air Force suggests that it is the opening phase in 
      an attempt to gain air superiority by exhausting our fighter 
      defences. On August 12th/13th and August 14th approximately 50% 
      of total first-line strength of dive-bombers and fighters was 
      probably employed. This policy is not proving successful and 
      Germans have suffered heavy casualties.
 
      
 
 
4. 
Shipping casualties.
 Yesterday British ship 1500 
      tons in convoy carrying coal from Newcastle to Thames rained 
      and sunk off Harwich, all crew saved.