Last week, the104th of World War II, scattered points of the British Empire issued encouraging aerial statistics to King George VI's half-billion scattered subjects, their allies, other well-wishers.
> In London air officials tallied a two-year bag of 7,170 Axis aircraft, exclusive of victories by their allies, counteracted rumors that ack-ack has bark but no bite by claiming 1,350 of these as anti-aircraft victims in France, Britain, the Middle East.
> Air officials also asserted that the four weeks ending Aug. 17 brought fewer than 300 Nazi bombers across the British coast...
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