MALTA PLANES
BUSY NIGHT OVER ITALY RAILWAYS BOMBED & TRAINS SHOT UP. JUNKERS 88 DESTROYED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, August 16. A Malta air communique states: “Malta-based Mosquitoes kept up their attack on Southern Italy on Saturday night, attacking trains and road transport, and bombing railway sidings. Trains were attacked around Naples. In South-East Italy a railway junction near Boria was bombed. Mosquitoes which were over Italy’s heel bombed a railway siding east of the Nol’do railway junction. Casarano was also bombed and two trains in Costignano station were repeatedly shot up. In Maglio station a goods train was ma-chine-gunned. Light bombers of the Tactical Air Force based on Malta were also over the toe of Italy during the night, bombing buildings. A Junkers 88 was destroyed yesterday over the sea.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1943, Page 3
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