TEN ENEMY PLANES
SHOT DOWN OVER GREECE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, December 7. Two big aerodromes near Athens, Kalamaki and Eleusius, were hit by co-ordinated attacks of Fortresses and Liberators yesterday. Enemy fighters which were aggressive took the air, but ten of them were shot down during the battle, with many more probably destroyed and others damaged. The Fortresses hit hangars and other buildings at Kalamaki, and showered parked aircraft with fragmentation bombs. Liberators, escorted by Lightnings, carried out similar attacks. On Sunday night Mosquitos were over airfields near Florence and Rome. Spitfires scored bomb hits on gun positions at Dierla, twelve miles north of Valona, in Albania.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1943, Page 3
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