SUCCESSFUL RAIDS
BRITISH AIR ATTACK Rec. 7.30 p.m. Cairo, Sept. 14. A Royal Air Force eommunique to-day stated that the Boma seaplane base was attacked during a series of raids on eastern Libya. Bombs fell in the anchorage and a large fire'broke out on the jetty. Fires were visible 30 miles away. After bombing a transport concentration near Didiomar, South African units raided Abyssinian aerodromes and started fires. British planes also raided Somaliland and Eritrea, scoring a direct hit on the jetty at Assab. They attacked the aerodromes at Gura and Asmara and started fires at Massawa.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1940, Page 8
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97SUCCESSFUL RAIDS Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1940, Page 8
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