BOMBING IN LIBYA
R.A.F. & SOUTH AFRICANS BUSY RESULTS OBTAINED ON LAND & SEA. ENEMY SCHOONER SUNK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) RUGBY, August 6. A R.A.F. Middle East communique states: “R.A.F. and South African Air Force bombers made a series of attacks on landing grounds and other military objectives in Cyrenaica on the night of August 4. Bombs were seen to fall on the landing-ground at Gazala. while at the Tmimi landing-ground explosions occurred and a hit on a mole caused a violent explosion and two fires. “South African pilots, flying Maryland bombers, also operated over Derna and carried out a series of attacks on motor transport workshops and assembly plants. “The harbour of Benghazi was again bombed and fires were seen to break out at the base of the Cathedral Mole. “Off Misurata our aircraft scored three direct hits on a schooner and sank it. “From these operations all our aircraft returned safely.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1941, Page 6
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