HEAVY ATTACKS
ON ENEMY TRANSPORT
MADE BY NAVAL BOMBERS. MUCH DAMAGE TO LARGE CONCENTRATION. (British Official Wireless,) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) RUGBY, December 7. Bombing and machine-gunning for nearly'an hour, in an attack in the early hours of the morning, naval aircraft caused much damage to a large concentration of enemy mechanical 'transport in the desert beyond Sidi Rezeglj, says the Air Ministry News Service. One pilot said: “It was well after midnight when we found them and we must have given them a nasty headache. We had been looking for them, but I was beginning to think that, our target had escaped us when I spotted what appeared at first sight to be a succession of forts. Instead of forts, however, we saw, oh closer observa-
tion, that the Germans had drawn'up for the night and formed their lorries 'f into six or seven big squares. What a dream of a target for us! We were pounding them with bombs for half an hour before they managed to rig up some sort of gun and fire back at us. Then we gave them a dose of machinegunning. They tried to drive the lorries away. One was on the move when first smoke and then flames burst from it. I believe we must have burnt up a good number of them.” These naval bombers have been attacking mechanical transport, tanks and aerodromes night after night since the offensive in Libya began. One night after . one section had been bombing an enemy aerodrome, there was a call for them to get busy among a concentration of tanks and motor transport. Armourers and ground crews worked like Trojans in the darkness, and as a result every possible aircraft took part in an extremely important operation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1941, Page 6
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