AXIS SOUGHT TRIAL OF STRENGTH
Malta Pilots’ Good Month
LONDON, November 3. October was a very successful mouth for Malta. Official figures issued today show that, the island’s pilots shot down at least 131 Axis planes and damaged many more. Anti-aircraft gunners destroyed another seven and probably destroyed others.
The Axis deliberately sought a trial of strength, but after 10 days called a halt. British pilots went up all da> and every day fighting against attacks which never seemed to stop, but their nerve and spirit never failed. Each day they intercepted the enemy further out to sea and the raiders had to drop their bombs before reaching Malta. Damage to the island was nothing as compared with the Axis air losses.
The famous Malta pilot, Pilot Officer Beurllng, who has shot down 2<> enemy planes over Malta, is now in England. After leaving hospital i’i Malta following a wound in the heel, he escajied uninjured when the plane in which lie was a passenger crashed at Gibraltar, though many of the other passengers wore killed. [A message published yesterday said that Beurling bad had his leg broken when the plane crashed at Gibraltar.]
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 35, 5 November 1942, Page 5
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194AXIS SOUGHT TRIAL OF STRENGTH Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 35, 5 November 1942, Page 5
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