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OVER MEDITERRANEAN & CRETE PROTECTION OF WORSHIPS CONVEYING TROOPS. DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY MACHINES (British Official Wireless.) ' (Received ThT Div 1? 50 pm.) ’ RUGBY Jtm-'l. An R.AF. Middle East co r , m , ’n :r 'u<’ states: A.F. f.ghlers mahiio.ined dein the Merl’ierrcnenn throughout S:.'t're’.,' 'n the ecu:. ■of those patrols they clo;rir;yod five .limker 88 bombers. one 579 and one- Cant 107 bomber and o'mn.-ie'ed other Junker 88's so severely that a number of them are unlikely to have regained their bases'. “At Tunisa the Italian ship attacked on May 30 was again bombed and machine-gunned. Three direct hits on the vessel were followed by clouds of black smoke. “Tn Crete the aerodromes at Malemi and Heraclion were again heavily bombed during the night of May 30. Three enemy aircraft were set on fire at Malemi and at Heraclion a number of fires, accompanied by heavy explosions, were started near runways and among the aerodrome buildings. Six grounded Junkers 88's were ma-chine-gunned and damaged.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1941, Page 6
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