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POSITION ON THE ISLAND OF KOS REPORTS OF GREAT AIR BATTLE. IN PROGRESS OVER DODECANESE GROUP. LONDON. October 7. The position on the island of Kos is still obscure. The Germans claimed to hold the island two days ago, but today report that fighting is ' still going on. They claim to have captured the landing ground and town of Kos. R.A.F. heavy bombers successfully attacked an airfield on Rhodes and another in Crete. Unofficial Turkish reports say that a vast and almost continuous air battle is going on over the Dodecanese Islands. The Berlin radio said that strong formations of bombers and dive-bomb-ers bombed Portolago, on Leros, and that the targets were heavily hit. OFFICIAL REPORT BRITISH TROOPS STILL FIGHTING. DAMAGE DONE IN ATTACKS ON RHODES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 7. A Middle East joint war communique states that although German forces have captured the landing grounds and town of Kos, resistance by British troops on the island continues. “R.A.F. heavy bombers on Tuesday night,” the communique adds, “attacked the airfield at Maritza (in Rhodes). Direct hits were scored on hangars, and violent explosions, followed by fires, were observed on the northern aircraft dispersal area and on the eastern part of the airfield. An enemy encampment near Kattavia, on Rhodes, was machine-gunned. Other bombers attacked the harbour of Syros, hits on a jetty being observed. On the same night the airfield of Kastelli Pediada, in Crete, was bombed. None of our aircraft is missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1943, Page 3
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