HEAVY BLOWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1943, Page 3

HEAVY BLOWS

STRUCK BY RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT AT ENEMY AIR CONCENTRATIONS & BASES. LARGE NUMBERS OF PLANES DESTROYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) - LONDON, June 13. A Soviet special communique states: “On Saturday night large formations of long-range aircraft attacked the enemy-held railway junctions of Gomel and Bryansk and the railway station at Karachev. Big concentrations of planes and ammunition dumps were effectively bombed. Two Soviet aircraft are missing. ” A supplement to the ordinary Soviet communique states; “During the week from June 6 to 12 inclusive, 548 German planes were destroyed, in aerial combat, on their aerodromes, or by anti-aircraft tire. In addition, large numbers have been destroyed on their aerodromes during raids by large forces attacking at night. In the same period 153 Soviet planes were lost. “In the Barents Sea, one enemy transport and two cutters were sunk. In the Black Sea, one enemy transport was sunk.” Another report states that the defenders of Leningrad continue to inflict losses on the enemy. Stormoviks wrecked a train and damaged trucks. Airmen of the Baltic Navy have sunk an enemy patrol cutter and damaged another.