ENEMY SHIPS
ATTACKED SUCCESSFULLY IN MEDITERRANEAN R.A.F. BOMBING IN CRETE & LIBYA. JUNKERS SHOT DOWN NORTH OF ALEXANDRIA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY, May 21. A R.A.F. Middle East communique states: “Objectives in Crete and Libya were raided by our bomber aircraft on Tuesday night and during the same night R.A.F. and naval planes attacked an enemy convoy in the Mediteiranean. Hits were scored with bombs and probably with torpedoes on a me-dium-sized merchant vessel and on destroyers.
“Operations in Cyrenaica were on a reduced scale yesterday owing to bad weather. * . . “It is now established that in the early morning of May 14 a Junkers 88 was' hit by fire from anti-aircraft defences and crashed into the sea north of Alexandria Harbour. “From all operations one of our aircraft is missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1942, Page 4
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134ENEMY SHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1942, Page 4
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