RAID ON VALONA
DAMAGE DONE TO BUILDINGS & AIRCRAFT SURPRISE SPRUNG BY BRITISH BOMBERS. LOW-FLYING ATTACK ON WARSHIP. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) RUGBY, December 25. “In Northern Albania, the Valona aerodrome, where many enemy aircraft were dispersed on the ground, was successfully attacked,” an R.A.F. communique reports. “The target, as well as the harbour and town, were covered by low cloud, through which our aircraft dived, taking the enemy by surprise. ‘■While a number of our aircraft bombed enemy aircraft on the aerodrome, others attacked hangars and buildings, and followed up with a lowlevel machine-gun attack. When our aircraft left the aerodrome, it was enveloped in smoke. A cruiser, which put up an anti-aircraft barrage, was heavily machine-gunned from a low height.” ’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1940, Page 6
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125RAID ON VALONA Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1940, Page 6
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