CAIRO REPORT
LAND & AIR OPERATIONS. ATTACKS ON ENEMY PLANES & BARGES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) RUGBY, December 18. A Cairo communique states: “The remains of the Axis rearguard yesterday continued their withdrawal, strongly pursued by our advanced forces, who throughout the day I were fighting the enemy in an area southwest of Nofilia. The extent of the damage inflicted upon the enemy between Marble, Arch and Wadi Matratin is not yet known. • “Extensive fighter patrols, carried out by Allied aircraft, have prevented the enemy air force from interfering with the advance 04 the Eighth Army. “Fighters and fighter-bombers yesterday attacked the landing ground on Lampedusa Island and did considerable damage to dispersed aircraft. At least five large enemy aircraft, flying south, weie destroyed by fighters off Sicily and a single Junkers 88 was shot down near Benghazi. “Barges, sailing northwards off the coast of Tripoli, were successfully attacked with bombs and machine-guns, Two of our aircraft are missing."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1942, Page 3
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