AIR BASES POUNDED IN GREECE
Results For Fortresses LONDON, October 11. As part of the Mediterranean air plan to pound German airfields and smash grounded bombers. Flying Fortresses carried out yesterday, without escort, a round trip of 1500 miles from North-west Africa to Greece to bomb two important airfields for the second day in succession. The airfields were those of Tat.oi, 15 miles north-east of Athens, and Araxos, on the western side of the Gulf of Patras. Thousands of pounds of bombs fell on the airfields, smashing hangars, runways, barracks, and petrol dumps. Two grounded planes exploded and many fires were left burning. About 25 German fighters attacked one Fortress group, which destroyed four of them and . damaged a number of others. Fortresses nt Araxos bombed freely without opposition. These attacks made a total of 10 airfields which have been attacked by heavy bombers in two days.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 5
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147AIR BASES POUNDED IN GREECE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 5
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