AXIS AIR LOSSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 3

AXIS AIR LOSSES

TRANSPORT PLANE SHOT DOWN IN NORTH AFRICA ENEMY BOMBERS DESTROYED . IN SUEZ AREA. BATTLEFRONT IN EGYPT QUIET. LONDON, August 24. Tn Egypt there is still nothing more than the usual patrol activity to report in land operations. Fighter-bombers attacked enemy transport. One transport aircraft was shot down by long-range fighters. The second German bomber destroyed in three nights by night fighters over the Suez Canal was shot down last night. Enemy installations* in Tobruk Harbour have been attacked by Allied aircraft. The transport plane destroyed was, according to a later Cairo message, a three-engined Italian machine laden with troops. Within seconds of the moment when it began slithering toward the sea, men started to pour from it, and when our fighters left the scene, .survivors were swimming in the water round the sinking aircraft. ATTACK ON TOBRUK HARBOUR & TRANSPORT BOMBED (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, August 24. A Cairo communique states: “Our heaw bombers, carried out a successful dusk attack on Tobruk harbour installations and enemy transport. An aircraft was shot down by our longrange fighters near Dorna. At least one enemy bomber was destroyed by our night fighters when a small raid was attempted over our base landinggrounds last night.”