NO HALT
IN ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE
MANY FIGHTERS CROSS CHANNEL. IN EXCELLENT WEATHER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) RUGBY, August 17. The air offensive across the Channel was continued this morning and in the early afternoon, with fighters seen going out over the south-east coast of the Folkestone district. Many squadrons of fighters carried out extensive sweeps. The weather conditions were ideal—warm and sunny, with excellent visibility, when large forces of Allied aircraft crossed the Straits of Dover at 11 a.m. today. It is now known that another enemy aircraft was destroyed near the south coast of England last evening. MINOR ENEMY RAIDS ON ENGLISH SOUTH COAST. SOME CASUALTIES & DAMAGE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, August 17. An Air Ministry communique states: “There was a little enemy activity last night, over the Thames Estuary. A few bombs wore dropped at scattered points on the coast. Some damage was done and there were some casualties.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1943, Page 3
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