HEAVILY ATTACKED
AXIS .NORTH AFRICAN AIRFIELDS MUCH DAMAGE DONE BY R.A.F. BOMBERS. MOTOR VEHICLES & PLANES MACHINE-GUNNED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) RUGBY, June 9. The destruction of at least fourteen enemy aircraft cn North African airfields is recorded by an additional R.A.F. Middle East communique, which states: "Last Sunday night R.A.F heavy bombers made prolonged raids on Benghazi and Derna. These attacks were followed al dawn by machinegun attacks cn dispersed aircraft al Derna and Gazala and on a camp and motor transport concentrations near Martuba. Considerable damage was caused at the airfields, six enemy airi craft being burnt out at Gazala and a [further eight destroyed at Derna. Many ether enemy aircraft were badly damaged. Fires and explosions were caused at Benghazi as a result of a combing raid, while at Derna several hits with high explosives started large fires followed by explosions. . Two of our planes so far have failed to return."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1941, Page 6
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