MALTA HITS BACK
Mosquito Planes Provide New Deadly Weapon OVER SICILY DAY AND NIGHT British Official Wireless Rec. 2.30 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 7. The arrival of Mosquito planes has giVen Malta a new weapon of immense value in air warfare. In the first montn of this year Malta's Mosquitoes flew nearly 200,000 miles, harrying enemy aircraft, trains, road convoys and ships and destroying four enemy aircraft in the air and one on the ground. They visited Italy 32 times. Malta is now hitting back against the Axis and our fighters and fighter-bombers keep the air raid alarms sounding in Sicily throughout the day and night, while the mainland of Italy itself is not escaping attention. Mosquito pilots were specially trained in England for intruder work, having been handpicked in the early stages of their flying careers, and life for the Luftwaffe in Sicily is no longer safe. Spitfires make it unsafe by day and Mosquitoes in the darkness. In three nights Mosquitoes attacked 26 trains.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 32, 8 February 1943, Page 3
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