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Excluding today's losses, Germany lost 453 planes since the first mass raid on German bombers flew over the town in formation, but salvoes from antiaircraft guns burst among them, causing them to disappear out to sea." planes daily in the past seven days, the communique disclosed.
Many other German planes were believed to have been seriously damaged and therefore it was not likely they ever returned to their bases, the Air Ministry said.
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