PUNISHING RAIDS
ON AXIS BASES IN LIBYA TOBRUK AGAIN HEAVILY BOMBED NO ALLIED PLANES LOST (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.17 p.m.) RUGBY, September 27. No planes were lost, despite intense anti-aircraft fire, when Allied air forces on Saturday night again attacked enemy landing grounds in the Western Desert and also shipping inside and outside Tobruk. A column of black smoke was seen to rise after an attack on shipping outside the harbour, while one violent explosion and many fires resulted from attacks on an aerodrome in the Sidi Hameish area. An enemy camp ten miles west of Tobruk was also raided.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 4
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103PUNISHING RAIDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 4
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