RAID ON MALTA
ENEMY PLANE DESTROYED OTHERS PUT TO FLIGHT. DAMAGING R.A.F. ATTACKS IN LIBYA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) RUGBY, August 8. A R.A.F. Middle East communique stcites * — “Three enemy aircraft approached Malta on the night of August 6. The first to cross the coast was shot down in flames into the sea. The otheis turned back without dropping bombs “During the same night, aircraft of tAe Fleet Air Arm bombed and ma-chine-gunned a number of enemy aircraft on Gerbini Aerodrome. Comiso was attacked on the previous day. Bombs were seen to burst near nangai “Our bombers yesterday attacked the harbour of Tripoli. Bombs were seen bursting on the Spanish Quay. “During the previous night, Soutn African Air Force Maryland . bombers carried out attacks on Bardia, where bombs were dropped on barracks. -From all these operations our planes returned safely.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1941, Page 6
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