MALTA’S GREAT WEEK
Attack Now Slackened (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 19. British fighters destroyed eight more enemy aircraft over Malta yesterday. The enemy’s air offensive, however, has eased considerably, and most of the attacks were only furtive tip-and-run raids on aerodromes. In the week ended Saturday the enemy lost 114 aircraft in the assault on Malta, for the loss by the British of 27 Spitfires, with 14 pilots saved. The enemy has made some 1400 sorties against the island, and therefore approximately one hostile aircraft in 13 which set out from Sicily has failed to return. This takes no account of scores of others which were so crippled that they had little hope of getting home. Never before have pilots destroyed so many enemy planes in one week round Malta.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 22, 21 October 1942, Page 5
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131MALTA’S GREAT WEEK Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 22, 21 October 1942, Page 5
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