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MANY AIRCRAFT

DESTROYED on ground

IN LATENT aIUeH ATTACkS’ ON SARDINIA. HEAVY TOL£..TAREN OF AXIS FIGHTERS. LONDO'N, May 28. Axis, airfields in Sardinia were tlie main targets of the Mediterranean air forces yesterday., Oyer 4,000 fragmem tatio'ii bombs were dropped and many aircraft were, destroyed on the ground. Thirteen but of 30 Axis’ fighters which tried to intercept the Allied bombers on their way home were shot down in a battle over the sea. One Allied machine was lo’s'L

Further attacks have been made on the Italian island base of Panfelleria, : ... An earlier message states that the most important target attacked on Wednesdaj' by the North African, Air Force was Sardinia's main power station at Tirso. The only report of damage at. present comes from Reuter’s Algiers correspondent, who says that, the pilots of Lightning fighter-bombers, which hit the powerhouse, saw their bombs bursting among buildings, trucks and military equipment. They also strafed a gun emplacement and two small .vessels on the lake with cannon and machine-gun fire, , The processing of .Sardina’s lead, zinc, copper and other metals .depends on power generated from the Tirso dam, which, is one of the largest, in Europe, and a smaller dam on the River Coghinas. Planes qf the Fleet Air Arm attacked Tirso dam with torpedoes on February 2, .1941. ...... .>.1., , .... The United States Secretary of W*r, Mr Stimson,, declared in Washington that as a result of the continual Allied poundings of Sicily, Pantelleria and Sardinia, Allied convoys are now able to, move from Gibraltar to Suez in relative security.

HAVOC ON AIRFIELDS MORE HOWLS FROM ITALY. ABOUT ALLIED BARBARISM. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.rri.),, LONDON, May 28. The United States Air Force was prominent in the Mediterranean air offensive yesterday, when it staged, a heavy raid, which observers believe may have knocked out the Decimomannu aerodrome. Marauders, escorted by Warhawks, swarmed over, the aerodrome and unleashed more than 4,000 fragmentation bombs among dozens of planes on runways or dispersed over the airfield, many of which were destroyed or damaged. Italian and German air forces reacted strongly and the Americans were pursued from their target to within 25 miles of the African coast by 30 Messerschmitts and Macchis, which attacked aggressively. The Americans shot down thirteen in eighteen minutes, for the loss of one Warhawk, the pilot of which was rescued from the sea.

No opposition was encountered when Mitchells, escorted by Lightnings, attacked the Villa Cidry aerodrome, where several fires were started and some arcraft were destroyed on the ground.

Pantelleria got its usual visit from Lightnings and Warhawks, bombs falling in the harbour defence area and among gun positions. The Italian newspaper “Messagero” says the majority of Palermo’s seventeenth and eighteenth century churches and palaces have disappeared, as a result of Anglo-American raids. The damage following upon the raid of May 9, which was the fiercest attack against the residential quarter, has been filmed, constituting an irrefutable witness of the Anglo-Americans’ cold and premeditated barbarism against cultural treasures and civilians. PLEDGE TO ITALY ATTACK WITH FULL POWER BY ALLIES. MR EDEN RECALLS MUSSOLINI’S STATEMENT OF 1940. “Italy is now wide open to attack and that attack will be pressed home with all the means in our power,” the Foreign Secretary (Mr Eden) declared in a statement in the House of Commons. Mr Eden added that so long as Italy continued to fight Hitler’s war she would be attacked with all the power the Allies possessed. The Foreign Secretary recalled a statement made by' Mussolini on November 8, 1940, that he had asked permission from Germany to participate in the attack on Britain with Italian aircraft and submarines and that the permission thus sought had been granted by the German Fuehrer, to whom Mussolini expressed gratitude for granting it.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430529.2.27

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1943, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
630

MANY AIRCRAFT Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1943, Page 3

MANY AIRCRAFT Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1943, Page 3

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