GERMAN ATTACK
IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA REPULSED BY FRENCH FORCES. MANY ALLIED AIR RAIDS ON ENEMY BASES. LONDON, January 10. French Headquarters in North Africa report that a German attack on the southern sector of the Tunisian front has been repulsed. Enemy troops were dispersed and three or four German tanks were destroyed. In the Eastern Sahara two places, including Talmut Meled, have been captured.
Allied bombers and fighters continue their day and night attacks on Rommel’s forces all along the coastal area. American Marauder bombers from Tunisia attacked an aerodrome and military camps near Tripoli. They were escorted by Lightnings, which badly mauled three Messerschmitts. An Axis airfield was pounded for the eighth day in succession and lorries and encampments were left ablaze. Enemy transport elsewhere and other targets in Tunisia were also attacked. Two Messerschmitts were shot down. All Allied planes returned from these operations.
THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS
TAKEN TO NORTH AFRICA
BY AIR
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, January 9. The Philadelphia correspondent of the "New York Times” says that the greatest Allied troop-carrying air armada of the war ferried many thousands of American soldiers on the 1400 miles’ non-stop flight from England to North Africa, simultaneously with the seaborne invasion on November 7. This was disclosed by Colonel Shelmire, assistant commander of the American Army Air Corps. The transports carried an average oi 20 men fully equipped and flew 150 miles an hour. The planes were of no particular or new design but were commercial transports fitted lor this special purpose. TUNISIAN AIR COMMAND MAJOR-GENERAL SPAATZ APPOINTED. LONDON, January 9. It is announced that Major-General Carl Spaatz has been Commander-in-Chief of the new Allied Air Force in Tunisia,- consisting of the British Eastern Air Command,; the United States Twelfth Air Force, and also some French units. He remains Commander-in-Chief of the United States air forces in the European theatre. • The figures of Allied and enemy air losses in the first two months of me North African campaign have been issued by Allied headquarters They are- Aircraft destroyed, enemy 344, Allied, 147.
AIR ACTIVITIES OVER THE TRIPOLITANIAN • BATTLE AREA. AND ENEMY MEDITERRANEAN BASES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, January 10. A joint Middle East communique states: “Yesterday there was nothing to report from the land forces. Allied fighter-bombers were active over the battle area. Enemy transport was attacked with good results. On Friday night our fighters machine-gunned the road between Homa and Zlitten. Bombers attacked a road junction near Tripoli and targets at Misurata. Many fires were started. . , “Intruder patrols were carried out over Pantellaria Island, Sicily ana Tunis where a Junkers 88 was shot down.’ Transport on the road between Sfax and Gabes was also attacked. During small enemy activity over Benghazi on Friday night, our fighters shot down a Messerschmitt Hl and a Junkers 88 was destroyed in the 10bruk area.” '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3
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