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Show Bombs Felt by Reich Total 2,453,595 Tons LONDON, ENGLAND. American Ameri-can and British planes have dropped 2,453,595 tons of bombs on Germany since the start of the war more than 315 tons for each ton of explosives ex-plosives loosed on Britain by German Ger-man bombers or V weapons, it was disclosed. Allied airmen destroyed 40,822 German planes for a loss of 27,715. The Allies lost 16,552 bombers, 8,001 of them American, and 10,163 fighters, fight-ers, of which 7,165 were American. The German air force lost 20,574 planes in combat to American fighter fight-er pilots, and 12,337 more were shot up on the ground. Nearly 5,000 parked German planes were wrecked in April alone, the greatest single blow of the war against German air strength. |