BOMBS ON VALONA
DAMAGE DONE TO MOTOR TRANSPORT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY. December 15. The Albanian port of Valona was twice raided by the R.A.F. yesterday, it is announced from the headquarters of the British air forces in Greece. In the first attacks bombs fell among military stores and on a motor transport park. A column of black smoke was seen to rise from a motor transport concentration, and, although clouds prevented full observation, army barracks were also seen to be hit. In the second attacks an aerodrome was bombed, all bombs falling in the target area and an enemy aircraft taking off spun round on its wing tip and stopped. From all these operations all the British aircraft returned safely.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1940, Page 5
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