WORRY FOR AXIS
Allied Air Superiority In Desert LONDON, August 6. Today’s Cairo communique reports patrol activity in all sectors of the El Alamein front on Tuesday night, and says that yesterday there was shelling of the enemy in the central and southern sectors. In the central sector, enemy artillery was also active. Enemy transport and gun positions in the central sector were attacked from the air and one Messerschmitt 109 was shot down. A dispatch from El Alamein published in a Berlin newspaper says that the R.A.F. offensive is worrying the Axis forces. “The British are largely superior in the air,” the article says, “and are attacking us with fighter-bombers protected by fighters, even in the daytime.” The Admiralty states that a British submarine in the Mediterranean torpedoed and sank the laden Italian steamship Adda (800 tons) and rescued a number of survivors. Another enemy supply ship was damaged by gunfire and beached herself.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 265, 7 August 1942, Page 5
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155WORRY FOR AXIS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 265, 7 August 1942, Page 5
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