FIERCE FIGHTING
ON PRINCIPAL SECTORS I REPORTED BY RUSSIANS. AIR FORCE SUCCESSES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, August 10. An overnight Russian High Command communique reported on the Moscow wireless states: “During yesterday, fierce fighting took place in the sectors of Smolensk, Korosten. and Byelaya-Tserkov. On other sectors of the front there is no particular change. “Our Air Force dealt heavy blows to motorised and mechanised enemy units on the front and behind the lines as well as on enemy aerodromes. During Friday, our Air Force destroyed 14 enemy aircraft’. Our losses were 12 planes. According to the latest exact reports, 81 enemy aircraft were destroyed on Thursday, not 21 as previously reported. “One enemy E-boat was sunk and three others were damaged by bombs.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1941, Page 5
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