AMERICAN BOMBERS
ATTACK ON ENEMY BASES IN BLACK SEA FOLLOWING ON MISSION TO BALKANS. ATTEMPT TO REACH SEBASTOPOL. LONDON, June 13. United States bombers are believed to have attacked the enemyoccupied Russian ports of Odessa and Nikolaev on the Black Sea and also points in Rumania, says Reuter’s correspondent in Ankara, Turkey. , , . , The bombers were reported to.be based on Egypt (1100 miles away). Three bombers made a forced landing without damage at the aerodrome at Ankara and another made a forced landing in a district in Smyrna, western Turkey. The members of the crew refused to give details of their operation, merely saying it was a Black Sea ■ mission. All the planes are four-engin-ed Douglas bombers. ' It is reported from Vichy that a fifth United States bomber landed in Turkey. The planes, after fulfilling a mission in the Balkans, are reported to have tried to reach Sebastopol, but the Luftwaffe forced them to turn back .and the bombers ran out of petrol over Turkey.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1942, Page 3
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