HITTING HARD
R.A.F. IN CYRENAICA
PORTS AND BASES BOMBED. HEAVY TOLL OF ENEMY PLANES IN MIDDLE EAST. LONDON. June 30. A Middle East communique states that the R.A.F. continues to hit hard at the enemy in Cyrenaica. Fires were started at Benghazi. The landing ground at Gazala and the port of Derna were also bombed. One British plane is missing.
Altogether. 1434 enemy planes have been destroyed in the Middle East since the war began. Our losses are 250. This latter figure includes aircraft of the R.A.F., Australian, South African and Free French air forces.
Two Italian planes were shot down over Malta by British fighters and three damaged, states an official communique from Malta. There were no casualties to our aircraft or personnel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 5
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