MINOR ACTIVITIES
ALONG TUNISIAN FRONTIER! * AIR ATTACKS ON ENEMY SHIPS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, February 9. Minor artillery duels' in the northern sector and patrol' activity along the Tunisian border by forward elements of the Eighth Army, says a Cairo message, were the main operations yesterday. There wore no large scale operations in the frontier area, although Australian and R.A.F. pilots attacked well-dispersed motor transport west of Ben Gardane. Two enemy fighters'tried to intercept and a small but indecisive combat resulted. Later in the day fighters attacked four Junkers 87s, forcing them to drop their bombs in an area where there were no troops. One enemy machine was badly damaged by ground fire. Two merchant vessels were attacked by torpedo aircraft north of Sicily on Sunday night' The larger of the two ships, which attempted to conceal itself behind a smoke screen, was hit in the stern by a torpedo.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1943, Page 4
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