GREAT DAY
FOR MALTA AIR FORCES DAMAGING NIGHT RAIDS ON ITALY. FOLLOW HEAVY ATTACK \ ON CONVOY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.11 a.m.) RUGBY, March 19. * Malta’s great day on Wednesday, when its air forces struck heavily at an enemy convoy, was followed by a renewal of the oensive on the same evening. As soon as night fell, Malta went on the offensive again with fighter intruders. Ranging over Sicily and the toe of Italy in moonlight, they left trails of havoc on railways. Trains were attacked until the either blow up or were’brought to a standstill, enveloped in steam. A goods tram was raked, brilliant white flashes coming from the trucks. Two railway stations and a railway junction were gunned thoroughly, and heavy black smoke came from one station, two explosions from another, and a dazzling white glow from the junction. The intruders shot up signal boxes at otherpoints. Altogether it was a grand day for the air force of Malta.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1943, Page 3
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