NAVAL & AIR ATTACKS
Shore defences of Pantelleria were bombarded for the second time in three days by a British cruiser at dawn yesterday, according to an agency correspondent who watched the attack from the cruiser’s deck. There was some reply from coastal defence guns, but no air attack. The cruiser had a destroyer escort.
A North Africa communique stated: “On Thursday night bombers attacked targets in Italy, Sicily and Pantelleria, and the last-named was again attacked on Friday by bombers and fighterbombers. Two of our aircraft are missing.
A Middle East air communique says: “Our light bombers attacked a small vessel in the Aegean Sea off Scarpanto Island on Friday. The crew abandoned the ship. All of our aircraft returned safely.”
Two new targets—Syracuse, in Sicily, and Catanzaro, in Italy—have been visited by bombers of the North-west African Air Forces, says a correspondent. Wellington bombers dropped incendiaries on both places on Thursday night.
Lightnings set fire to three hangars and damaged a runway at the Milo aerodrome on Friday. They also attacked and machine-gunned positions on'Favignana Island, off the western tip of Sicily.
The Exchange Telegraph Company’s Algiers correspondent says that Catanzaro is on the instep of the Italian “boot,” and the most easterly point yet attacked from North-West Africa. Photographs reveal that 17 out of 19 oil tanks were burnt out and three gasholders badly damaged in the Fortress raid on Leghorn on May 28.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 3
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