LARGE-SCALE ATTACKS
Targets In Sicily i British Official Wireless.) RFGBY. .I.inmiry 25. \ 1,,, scale ligliler-boitiber attack was carried out. on the Ben Garilane landing ground. A .1 ankers Sb was shot down in eomhat and damage \\a>> inllicled on grounded aircraft. Dn Satiirdav night light bombers allaeked bindjii" and started fires at Medenm. Dispersed vehicles in Hie frontier area were also successfully attacked. Palermo Harbour, m Sicily. was l>oin.»p<l on the same night am! fires were started. Two southbound enemy merchantmen were torpedoed ami set on lire by our aircraft north of Sicily. One broke in Iwo after an explosion, and the other was left burning furiously. One of the escortimx destroyers received a direct bomb hit". Extensive intruder operations were continued against shipping off Cape Bon and Patilellaria and against tarljpLs in Sicily ami vehicles on the coastal road l.» Tunisia. Yesterday Allied lighlcr bombers attacked various targets on the south coast of Sicily, ami hits were scored on railwav tracks and buildings. Erom the above operations two of our aircraft did not return.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 104, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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175LARGE-SCALE ATTACKS Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 104, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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