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FREE FRENCH ATTACK AERODROME FIVE HUNDRED MILES SOUTH OF TRIPOLI. t ENEMY TAKEN COMPLETELY BY SURPRISE. The latest attack in the African campaign, the 8.8. C. reports, has been made in an entirely new area, by Free French forces from Equatorial Africa, who attacked an aerodrome in an oasis 500 miles south of Tripoli. They took the Italians completely by surprise. The Italian forces were 500 strong. Early in the action they withdrew and left the Free French troops to destroy the aerodrome, including workshops and a number of aeroplanes on the ground. All through the day the French carried out their work of destruction. before withdrawing at nightfall. They took a score of Italian prisoners with them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 5
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120DESERT EXPLOIT Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 5
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