CONSTANT SUPPORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1941, Page 6

CONSTANT SUPPORT

GIVEN TO LAND FORCES R.A.F. ACTIVITIES ATTACKS ON ENEMY TRANSPORT & BASES. NUMBER OF HOSTILE PLANES DESTROYED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY. November 26. A R.A.F. Middle' East communique states: “Our bombers and fighters were again active over the whole battlefront in Libya on Tuesday and gave constant support to the operations of the land forces. In the area of the land battle, successful bombing attacks were made on enemy tanks and motor transport in the Shefezen and Sidi Omar districts. Fires were started in the middle of two concentrations of enemy mechanised forces. . “Aerial combats developed over Sidi Rezegh and Sidi Omar, in the course of which a CR42 and a Messerchmitt 110 were shot down. Five further Messerschmitt 110 s were destroyed in an ail’ battle which took place near Sidi Omar on Monday. “Elsewhere in Libya low-flying attacks were carried out on the aerodrome at Ageoabia, where a transport aircraft was seen to crash. A number of CR42’s .and CA3lOs were damaged, and a large petrol tanker was destroyed. Another attack was made on a road south of Barce, where a petrol tanker burst into flames and a number of lorries and other fuel carriers were damaged. “During Monday night the harbour of Benghazi was again bombed and fires broke out at the Central Mole. Raids were also made on aerodromes at Benina and Berka. Two unidentified aircraft were destroyed on the ground. A Messerschmitt 109 F was shot down in the Central Mediterranean by one of our bombers on Sunday. “In Abyssinia, bombing and mach-

ine-gunning raids were made _in the Gondar-Azozo area. Direct hits were obtained on a camp and on the castle at Gondar. • “Three of our planes are missing.”