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(Rec. 10.45) LONDON, July 27. Enemy air transport suffered its second disaster in a week when 21 Junkers 52’s transport aircraft and eight of their fighter escort were shot down by Spitfires near Messina on Sunday. Lightnings destroyed an entire fleet of Junkers 52’s near the Island of Ustica, north of Palermo, on Sunday, July 18.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 246, 28 July 1943, Page 3
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