AIR ATTACKS ON MALTA
MOKE HEAVY AXIS LOSSES (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) Rugby, Oct. 14. A further outstanding success was scored by Malta’s defenders yesterday when up to 3.30 p.m. our lighters shot down 17 enemy aircraft and damaged many others for the loss of one Spitfire. A Cairo communique recording this adds: “An additional enemy bomber was shot down over Malta the preceding night, while two more were destroyed in the battle area in Egypt, and another over Sicily. We lost only three aircraft in all these operations, including Malta, where all the attacks were broken up before damage could be inflicted. 1000 RAIDERS SO FAR Malta has brought down the 1000th enemy raider since the outbreak of the war in the Mediterranean. It fell soon after dawn on Tuesday, to Pilot Officer G. F. Beurling, a Canadian, who destroyed two other hostile aircraft in the same fight, making his score 26, including 24 at Malta, where he arrived in June. —8.0. W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 15 October 1942, Page 5
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