ALLIED AIRMEN
ACTIVE IN MANY AREAS FROM EGYPT TO SICILY. NUMBER OF ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, September 27. A Cairo communique records patrol activity and artillery exchanges in the northern sector. On Friday two enemy bombers were destroyed over the oasis of Kufra, and the same day our fighters, operating from Malta, shot down an Italian plane near Kuriat Island. Our bombers on Friday attacked targets at Tobruk, Solium, Maatcn and Bagush, and long-range fighters successfully attacked enemy transport between Bardia and Tobruk. During an offensive patrol over Sicily, we shot down a Messerschmitt.
A Junkers was shot down in the vicinity of Suez yesterday. _ From the above and other operations two of our planes failed to return.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 4
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