in 1954, [[i. s. o. playfair|ian playfair]], the british official historian, wrote that the british suffered 260 casualties and estimated italian losses of 2,052 men. seven british aircraft were shot down and ten were badly damaged in the fourteen days' fighting. in 1988, alberto rovighi, the italian official historian, wrote that the italians suffered 465 men killed, 1,530 wounded and 34 missing, a total of 2,029 men, of which 161 were metropolitan italians and 1,868 were local eritrean and somali ascari. the british-supporting somalis suffered about 2,000 casualties during the invasion and occupation; about 1,000 somalis became casualties fighting on the italian side. in 1993, harold raugh wrote that 38 of the british casualties had been killed and 222 wounded. in a 1996 publication, christopher shores wrote that the raf had seven aircraft losses and ten aircraft damaged. in 2007, andrea molinari recorded 1,995 italian casualties and four aircraft destroyed.