During the engagement, Scherf shot down two Axis aircraft in the air and damaged three more on the ground.

Some 21,000 Soviet and several thousand Axis aircraft were destroyed.

Axis aircraft were the major threat, and they devastated the next attempt to bring in a major convoy to Malta from the east.

Some 80-90 Axis aircraft were counted, poorly camouflaged and vulnerable.

They claimed to have seen 100-150 aircraft, but the raid only destroyed four Axis aircraft and damaged several.

She then defended the beachhead from Axis aircraft, surface ships, and submarines.

Minelaying by Axis aircraft also caused a steady rise in submarine losses.

If Axis aircraft attacked as they were withdrawing, they had to stay and fight.

Some 246 Axis aircraft were claimed by Typhoon pilots during the war.

Crews of 85-mm AD guns shot down 4,047 Axis aircraft.