FIRES & EXPLOSIONS
CAUSED BY ALLIED AIR ATTACKS ALL DAY LONG IN DESERT. FIERCE NIGHT RAID ON TOBRUK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, July 17. The employment of Allied aircraft in force in the Western Desert yesterday to bomb enemy transport resulted in fires and explosions all day long. One attack alone ten hits on vehicles, and others recorded many direct hits. Fighters intercepted enemy bombers and shot down four and probably others. ; Tobruk was raided on the night of July 15. Fires were started which lit up the whole waterfront. A large fire was started at Solium and another, followed by a series of explosions, at the El Gubbi landing ground. Targets near Oasba and El Baba were also attacked. Naval aircraft were also engaged in the battle area. From all these operations, nine aircraft have not returned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1942, Page 3
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