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Action p'.cturc made during a daylight precision bombing attack by 'planes of the U.S. Army Air Forcc on the important oil refineries at Leghorn, Italy. A "flock" of U.S. bombs winging their way towards the target. A few minutes, after this p.cture was ma'.'e the bombs found their mark with pin-point precision and th:> great tanks containing Italy's reserves of oil for war purposes went up in smoke and flame.

An army fireman on Ma'ta, G.G. With liis comrailes of the Malta Army Fire 'Brigade, he fought fires throughout the hundreds of intensive rait's on the most blitzed island in the world, lie,fore the war lie was a butcher.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BPB19440428.2.9.3

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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 68, 28 April 1944, Page 3

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Action p'.cturc made during a daylight precision bombing attack by 'planes of the U.S. Army Air Forcc on the important oil refineries at Leghorn, Italy. A "flock" of U.S. bombs winging their way towards the target. A few minutes, after this p.cture was ma'.'e the bombs found their mark with pin-point precision and th:> great tanks containing Italy's reserves of oil for war purposes went up in smoke and flame. An army fireman on Ma'ta, G.G. With liis comrailes of the Malta Army Fire 'Brigade, he fought fires throughout the hundreds of intensive rait's on the most blitzed island in the world, lie,fore the war lie was a butcher. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 68, 28 April 1944, Page 3

Action p'.cturc made during a daylight precision bombing attack by 'planes of the U.S. Army Air Forcc on the important oil refineries at Leghorn, Italy. A "flock" of U.S. bombs winging their way towards the target. A few minutes, after this p.cture was ma'.'e the bombs found their mark with pin-point precision and th:> great tanks containing Italy's reserves of oil for war purposes went up in smoke and flame. An army fireman on Ma'ta, G.G. With liis comrailes of the Malta Army Fire 'Brigade, he fought fires throughout the hundreds of intensive rait's on the most blitzed island in the world, lie,fore the war lie was a butcher. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 68, 28 April 1944, Page 3

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