SMASHING BLOWS
AT GERMAN AIRFIELDS IN GREECE FLYING FORTRESSES AGAIN IN ACTION. ENEMY FIGHTERS DESTROYED OR DAMAGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. As part of the Mediterranean air plan to pound German airfields and smash grounded bombers, Flying Fortresses, without escort, yesterday carried out a round-trip of 1500 miles, from North-West Africa to Greece, to bomb two important airfields for the second day in succession. The airfields were Tatia, 15 miles north-east of Athens, and Araxos, on the western side of the Gulf of Patras. Thofisand-pound bombs fell on the airfields, smashing hangars, runways, barrabks and petrol dumps. Two grounded planes exploded and many fires were left burning. About 25 German fighters attacked one Fortress group, which destroyed foui’ and damaged a number of others. The Fortresses at Araxos bombed freely, without opposition. These attacks made a total of ten airfields attacked by heavy bombers in two days.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1943, Page 4
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