AIR VICTORY
WON AGAINST THE AXIS IN LIBYA TWENTY ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED. WITHOUT LOSS TO EMPIRE FORCES. LONDON, February 15. In Libya British and Australian fighter planes have scored their greatest individual success of the campaign. Eighteen Kittihawk planes shot down twenty enemy
planes without loss to themselves. An enemy force of thirty dive-bomb-ers and fighters was engaged west of Gazala. Not one of the enemy machines escaped undamaged. The aircraft shot down were 15 Italian fighters and five German Messerschmitts. British bombers selected enemy bases in Sicily and elsewhere as their targets. Explosions and fires were caused at Catania, in Sicily. Clouds prevented observation of the results of bombing at Gerbini. Heraklion, in Crete was also bombed. One of our planes is missing from these and other operations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1942, Page 3
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129AIR VICTORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1942, Page 3
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