HEAVILY ATTACKED
Enemy Targets In Italy
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 17. An air communique states that the North-west African air forces operated heavily against the enemy in Italy yesterday. Medium bombers, escorted by Lightnings, attacked the marshalling yards at Ancona, on the east coast. Light and medium bombers operating north of Capua attacked supply sheds. On targets on the east coast railway fighters and fighter-bombers shot up trains and destroyed many vehicles. On Friday night light bomliers attacked motor transport and railways south of Rome. Lightnings bombed a merchant vessel off the coast of Greece and left it sinking. A total of eight enemy aircraft was destroyed during the period.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19431019.2.65
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
111HEAVILY ATTACKED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in