 August proved the costliest to the Luftwaffe in the second half of the year with 42 losses which fell to 18 in September and 15 in October.JG 2 and JG 26 claimed approximately 950 British aircraft destroyed in 1941, with barely 150 fighters available at any one time for the loss of 236—103 in aerial combat.Fighter Command lost 849 fighters in total in 1941 and claimed 775, a considerable exaggeration.