FREE FRENCH BOMBS.
THIRTY TANKS DESTROYED.
GERMAN COLUMN ATTACKED. LONDON, Nov. 30. Free French headquarters states that a Free French squadron which is operating in the Libyan offensive under the command of Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Coningham made a particularly heavy and successful raid on a German column with., tanks on November 23. The column, which was accompanied by about 100 tanks, was observed to the ( south of Tobruk. It was successfully attacked by Free French bombers, and 30 German tanks were destroyed. As a result of this attack British military units in the vicinity were able to conclude successfully their operations as planned, and the British commander sent his congratulations to the Free French forces. The work of the squadron has been mentioned three times in official Middle East communiques. It is commanded by Commandant Cornigblion-Moliner, who at the age of 10 was the youngest pilot of a fighter machine in the last war.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 44, 2 December 1941, Page 5
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