FIGHTERS & BOMBERS
CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS AGAINST ENEMY TRANSPORT COLUMNS ATTACKED NEAR BUERAT. SIXTY MILES BEYOND SIRTE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) RUGBY, December 20. A Cairo communique says: Throughout yesterday our advance forces continued to follow up' the retreating enemy rearguards. Again large scale fighter operations were carried out against the tenemy. Targets, which were attacked with considerable success, were principally transport columns as far west as Buerat, 60 miles beyond Sirte. Enemy air activity, which was on a small scale, did not hinder our operaions. Transport and buildings at Buerat were successfully bombed on Friday night. The enemy also were active on Friday night, and a large formation of bombers approaching Malta was engaged by our night Aghters, which shot one down and forced the others to jettison their bombs into the sea. Some damage was done ,but our offensive night operations were maintained.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1942, Page 3
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