BOMB HITS
ON AXIS SHIPS OFF COAST OF BRITTANY BRITISH FIGHTERS ALSO IN ACTION. VESSELS RAKED FROM LOW LEVEL. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, April 28. Whirlwinds, escorted by Spitfires, one of which is missing, continued their offensive against enemy shipping today, says the Air Ministry. They attacked a convoy of eight ships off the coast of Brittany. Minesweepers at the real’ of ■the convoy received four hits from two Whirlwind bombers, and another minesweeper and a trawler also received bomb hits. Despite intense light and heavy flak, the escorting fighters swept down to a low level and raked the enemy ships with machine-gun fire.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430429.2.48
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1943, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
109BOMB HITS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1943, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in