OF AIR ASSAULT ON ITALIAN ISLANDS
Allies Turn Their Weight Against Sardinia AXIS FIGHTERS REPELLED AND NINE DESTROYED SICILY AND PANTELLERIA NOT NEGLECTED LONDON, May 25. Yesterday, the sixth day of the battle of the Italian islands, saw the Allied air forces switch the main weight of their attack against Sardinia. From dawn to dusk wave after wave of planes swept over the island. More than 300 aircraft, including Flying Fortresses, took part in non-stop attacks on warehouses, factories, shipping, harbours, communications and airfields all round the island. Fighters shot up railway junctions, roads, bridges, shipping, aircraft and any other targets they could find. A few Axis fighters put up occasional resistance, but they never once succeeded in diverting’ the Allied aircraft- from their targets and nine were shot down. Three Allied planes were lost. Although Sardinia was the main target, neither Sicily nor Pantelleria were neglected. Bombers of the Middle East Command yesterday also attacked installations at both ends of the train ferry between Italy and Sicily and fighters attacked shipping in the Aegean Sea, east of Greece.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1943, Page 3
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179OF AIR ASSAULT ON ITALIAN ISLANDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1943, Page 3
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