HEAVY LOSSES
INFLICTED ON GERMANS IN RUSSIAN AIR ATTACKS. TANKS & LORRIES DESTROYED. (British Official (Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, October 5. Successful air attacks on German tanks and motor transport are reported in a Russian supplementary communique. Cnci German column lost, by bombs and machine-gun fire, 33 lorries with infantry, four companies of infantry and a squadron of cavalry. Another Russian air squadron, on the southern front, destroyed fifteen tanks.and 30 motor vehicles carrying infantry. Also in the south, the Germans suffered a defeat in land fighting in which they left 900 dead and wounded on the bat’-
tiefield, besides eight guns, 45 mach-ine-guns and nine mortars. On the approaches to Odessa, Russian naval detachments killed over a thousand Germans and one unit smashed a battalion of S.S. men in one fight, and in another killed 200 Germans.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1941, Page 6
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140HEAVY LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1941, Page 6
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