MANY TARGETS
bombed in middle east BY R.A.F. ENEMY LOSSES OF PLANES AT MALTA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY, April 6. A R.A.F. Middle East communique ? states: “Enemy aerodromes at Berka * and the harbour and shipping at Benghazi were again bombed on Saturday night. On the same night we bombed and machine-gunned an aerodrome at Martuba and attacked other objectives in that area. “Fighters shot down one Junkers 88 in Cyrenaica yesterday. “In the Jalo area, a twin-engined enemy aircraft was destroyed on the ground. “Enemy raids on Malta were continued yesterday, when our fighters shot down three Junkers 88s. Anti-aircraft guns destroyed a further one on Saturday night, while complete reports ’ of Saturday’s raids show that two additional German bombers were destroyed on that day. “Six of our aircraft are missing, but one pilot is safe.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1942, Page 4
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