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Summary of air casualties.
 
      Enemy: Destroyed, Probable, Damaged
 
      
 
 
By our fighters
 
      Bombers: 2,2,5
 
      Fighters: 6,5,4
 
      
 
 
By anti-aircraft
 
      Bombers: 2, nil, nil
 
      Totals: 10, 7, 9
 
      
 
 
British:
 
      9 aircraft (4 pilots safe). One bomber missing.
 
      
 
 
5. Convoys. 
Two convoys of seventy ships have arrived 
      safely. Cargoes included eight of oil, eighteen of pigiron and 
      iron ore and ten of pyrites.
 
      
 
 
6. Middle East
. On the night of October 26th/27th enemy 
      aircraft dropped bombs in Ismailia district without causing damage 
      or casualties.
 
      Sudan. On night of October 25th/26th three of our aircraft bombed 
      enemy troop concentrations in Kassala.Fires broke out followed 
      by explosions. 
 
      
 
 
Kenya.
 On October 25th three enemy aircraft bombed 
      Garissa without causing damage or casualties. On the same day 
      two Hurricanes of the South African Air Force intercepted three 
      Italian bombers near Lake Rudolph and shot down two of them. 
      The third was severely damaged and is believed to have crashed. 
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