AIR RAIDS ON MALTA
Enemy Loses 22 Planes (Rec. 10.45 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 13. In three raids on Malta yesterday the enemy lost 12 bombers and 10 fighters, states a communique issued in Valetta. The island’s defences destroyed five bombers and one fighter in the first raid soon after dawn and three bombers and three fighters in the second raid, when some of our aerodromes were attacked. Other enemy planes were damaged. Our fighters met the enemy coming in for a third raid and massacred them, half the bombers in the force being shot down into the sea, together with five of their escort planes. The remaining bombers, also many fighters, were badly damaged. Malta has now accounted for nearly 1000 enemy planes.
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Southland Times, Issue 24874, 14 October 1942, Page 5
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123AIR RAIDS ON MALTA Southland Times, Issue 24874, 14 October 1942, Page 5
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