JUNKERS DESTROYED
BY FIGHTERS FROM MALTA LARGE SUPPLY SHIP SET ON FIRE. IN R.A.F. ATTACK ON CONVOY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, March 4. R.A.F. Headquarters at Malta states: “Yesterday fighters destroyed a Junkers 88 over the sea. A reconnaissance aircraft destroyed a Junkers 52. Last night R.A.F. torpedo-bombers attacked a convoy in the Central Mediterranean and hit and caused a fire in a large supply ship.” A Middle East air communique states: “A Junkers 88 was damaged by fighters during a dusk attack on Tripoli on Tuesday. During daylight yesterday United States heavy bombers attacked Messina. All the planes returned safely.” GALLANT STAND BY BRITISH VETERAN TROOPS. AGAINST AXIS PARACHUTISTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, March 4. A correspondent tells how at a critical moment in the German push in northern Tunisia, men of a British pioneer corps were rushed to combat German paratroops. These grey-haired veterans, with only their rifles and 50 rounds of ammunition apiece and one Bren gun, held a gap for 24 hours till Churchill tanks came up and relieved them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1943, Page 3
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