SUCCESSFUL RAID
MADE BY SOUTH AFRICANS ON ABYSSINIA DESTRUCTION OF ITALIAN PLANES. ALL ATTACKING MACHINES RETURN SAFELY. (British Official Wireless.) £ (Received This Day. 11.40 a.in.) RUGBY. December 23. Details are now available of a raid on Yavello, in Abyssinia, which is officially described as “the biggest thing since Mogadiscio'.” Flying over country of a very forbidding nature, aircraft of the South African Air Force spotted enemy aircraft concealed among bushes. Despite heavy anti-aircraft fire, three waves of planes swooped upon their targets. Two Caproni machines were set on fire and left charred on the ground, while a third was reduced to wreckage by incendiary bullets. Three hundred bombs were dropped in the target area and the perimeter was machine-gun-ned. Three more Capronis were easily seen to be seriously damaged. Part of the wing of one was torn off and the fuselage of another was practically blown out of the aircraft, while a third was left like a shell. All the South African aircraft returned safely.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1940, Page 6
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165SUCCESSFUL RAID Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1940, Page 6
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