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BY FIGHTER=BOMBERS 1 ITALIAN ISLAND BASE OF PANTELLERIA. ENEMY NAVAL VESSEL DESTROYED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, April 14. Fighter-bombers have shaken up Pantelleria, the Italian island base between Sicily and North Africa, says a Malta message. Bombs burst at the entrance to an underground hangar and others among aircraft on the ground. A Macci 202 was damaged before it managed to break away. Mosquitoes sighted three naval vessels and in an attack blew up the largest. Another Mosquito attacked a supply ship of medium size, with cannon fire, and then proceeded to strafe a road convoy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1943, Page 3
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