AIR OFFENSIVE
BOMBS RAINED ON VITAL TARGETS 9CO TONS ON MESSINA IN SEVEN DAYS. MAINLAND AIRFIELD MADE FLAMING SHAMBLES. .(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) RUGBY, July 16. Across Italy from Naples, the big Axis bomber base of Foggia was raided in daylight yesterday by 70 American Liberators from Middle East airfields. An American communique says: “Our bombers made a flaming shambles of the main airfield and of another landing ground, and left many aircraft burning on the ground. They dropped nearly 180 tons of bombs and scored direct hits on hangars, barracks and other buildings. “In Sicily, Mitchells were over Palmermo for four hours. They dropped 100 tons of bombs, mainly on the docks. Messina, raided round the clock on Tuesday and Wednesday, has had another load, making 900 tons of bombs in seven days.” A correspondent says 150 tons of bombs were dropped on one area of two miles by one. Our torpedocarrying aircraft have sunk or destroyed at least 20.000 tons of Axis shipping in twelve hours. VISITS OF INSPECTION MADE BY GENERALS EISENHOWER AND ALEXANDER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, July 16. Generals Eisenhower and Alexander have gone to Sicily. The Commander-in-Chief drove round in a jeep for a look round the front. General Alexander, who on Tuesday visited the American Sector, travelled the island again yesterday and spent several hours ashore in the British sector, visiting General Montgomery at his headquarters. He made the trip in a British destroyer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1943, Page 3
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250AIR OFFENSIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1943, Page 3
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