HEAVIER ATTACKS
PLANNED DURING PRESENT MONTH WORK OF AMERICAN BOMBERS IN MEDITERRANEAN. GENERAL BRERETON’S SURVEY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 7. Major-General L. H. Brereton, commanding the United States Air Force in the Middle East, said in Cairo that an intensification of air attacks against enemy targets during July was indicated. American long-range bombers were expected to strike more frequently with record-breaking bomb loads. In June the United States Air Force made 2313 Middle East sorties and dropped 1600 tons of high explosives. DEVASTATION IN SICILY. Reuter’s Algiers correspondent says reconnaissance photographs have revealed that recent Allied air attacks against Sicily have resulted in the destruction of several dozen enemy planes on a cluster of aerodromes at Gerbini. Rail sidings at the Messina Ferry Terminus, are dotted with hundreds of bomb craters. Fifty Liberators participated in an attack against Gerbini Aerodrome yesterday, and dropped nearly 130 tons of high explosives, and also fragmentation bombs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1943, Page 4
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