MALTA’S ORDEAL
HEAVY TOLL OF ENEMY AIRCRAFT LONDON, October 21. The Secretary for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair) announced to-day that up to .Monday Malta had had LOGO bomoiiig raids since the war bewail, and had destroyed 1,001) enemy aircraft. I'p to September ‘JO the number of civilians killed had been I.GSG, and 0.700 buildings had been destroyed or damaged. The continued failure of the \memy air attacks on Malta are described by the It.A.I I '. Middle Ktist News Service. After a series of tip-and-run raids by MM 109's on Monday, the Luftwaffe attempted to outwit, the defenders by sending over three bomber formations at dusk, one from the west, one from the east, and the other from the north. Though outnumbered by 10 to 1, British day fighters first drove off the western force and then the eastern, while night fighters intercepted the raiders from the north. Less than one-tenth of the enemy bombers managed to cross' the coast, and two were destroyed.
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Evening Star, Issue 24332, 22 October 1942, Page 6
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163MALTA’S ORDEAL Evening Star, Issue 24332, 22 October 1942, Page 6
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