DAMAGING RAIDS
ON MESSINA & NAPLES MADE BY AMERICAN BOMBERS. DIRECT HITS ON TARGETS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, April 29. A Middle East air communique states: “In a daylight attack on the harbour of Messina yesterday, by heavy American bombers, hits were scored on ferry terminus installations and fires were started in railway yards south of the terminus. At the same time another formation of American heavy bombers raided the docks at Naples, their bombs scoring direct hits on the targets. During these operations at least four enemy fighters, which attempted to interfere, were shot down. One of our planes is missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1943, Page 3
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