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4. 
EXTRACTS FROM PHOTOGRAPHIC AND INTELLIGENCE REPORTS 
      ON RESULTS OF AIR ATTACKS ON ENEMY TERRITORY IN EUROPE
 
      
 
 
BREMEN.
 21st/22nd January - Two large grain depots 
      were destroyed.
 
      
FRANCE.
 - Photographs taken on l0th February show the 
      alcohol distillery at PERIERS attacked by fighters two months 
      previously, totally inactive.
 
      
 
 
4. 
OPERATIONAL AIRCRAFT BATTLE CASUALTIES
 
      METROPOLITAN AREA.
 British in the Air - Bombers 19, Fighters 
      20, Coastal ll - total 50. One Fighter Command Pilot is safe. 
      Enemy - 7 bombers destroyed, 5 damaged; 17 fighters destroyed, 
      seven probably destroyed, 18 damaged, miscellaneous - one destroyed 
      - total 25 destroyed, 7 probably destroyed and 23 damaged.
 
      
MIDDLE EAST.
 (Including MALTA) - British - 1 Bomber in 
      the air and 3 on the ground, 20 Fighters in the air, Coastal 
      (Recco) 3 in the air. Total 24 in the air and 3 on the ground. 
      4 pilots and 1 crew are safe. Enemy - 14 bombers destroyed, 8 
      probably destroyed, 13 damaged, 26 Fighters destroyed, 6 probably 
      destroyed, 15 damaged, 1 miscellaneous damaged. Total 40 destroyed, 
      14 probably destroyed and 29 damaged.
 
      
EAR EAST
 (ABDA AREA) British and Allied - 6 bombers in 
      the air, 1 Fighter do and one miscellaneous do. Total 8 in the 
      air. One pilot is safe. Enemy - 2 bombers destroyed, 2 probable, 
      6 Fighters destroyed, one probable, 3 miscellaneous destroyed. 
      Total eleven destroyed and 3 probably destroyed. Note: no account 
      is taken of enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground in any theater 
      of British naval aircraft casualties.
 
      
 
 
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HOME SECURITY.
 
      Estimated civilian casualties for week ending 0600/18th. 8 killed 
      and 12 seriously wounded. 
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