AXIS RAIDERS AT MALTA
HONOURS WITH DEFENDERS. "DEFINITES" EXCEED CENTURY.
B.O.W.
RUGBY, Oct. 16.
The honours were again with the defenders in the undiminished Axis onslaught on Malta. To-day's Cairo eommunique states that the attacks continued on Wednesday night but most of the bombs fell in the sea. One Heinkel was destroyed by our night-fighters. Daylight attacks on Thursday were on the same scale as previously. Our fighters shot down 14 enemy aircraft for a loss of four Spitfires. Three pilots are safe. A later message says that the tally for the fifth day of the blitz was 15, liot 14, while up to midday to-day six more Axis planes had been shot down. These latest successes bring the total definite; Axis losses for the period of the new air offensive to over 100. The D.F.C. has been awarded to Pilot Officer G. F. Beurling, the Canadian who shot down Malta's thousandth Axis plane. He now has a personal bag of 29.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 245, 17 October 1942, Page 5
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162AXIS RAIDERS AT MALTA Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 245, 17 October 1942, Page 5
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