MANY ENEMY SHIPS
-SUNK OR BADLY DAMAGED BY ALLIED AIRCRAFT INCLUDING TWO DESTROYERS & CRUISER. FLEET OF BIG TRANSPORT PLANES SHOT DOWN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY, May 5. Apart from the support given to our ground forces in Tunisia, the air forces operating in this theatre have shown remarkable flexibility in the variety of targets they have attacked. It was disclosed today that pilots attacking shipping in the Mediterranean report that between April 21 and May 2 they sank 14 enemy ships, set on fire 20 and damaged another ten. Among the ships sunk or set on fire were two destroyers and a cruiser. The airborne supply route has also been heavily hit by planes from North African bases, and 193 transport aircraft were shot down between April 5 and the end of the month. These transport planes would be capable of carrying 636 tons of goods or 6,000 fully equipped soldiers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1943, Page 3
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