R.A.F. OPERATIONS
CONSIDERABLE OFFENSIVE
(Rec. 1 p.m.) RUGBY. Nov. 23. Operating further with the Imperial land forces, British aricraft maintained their considerable offensive over the Libyan battle area yesterday, states an R.A.F. (Middle East) communique issued in Cairo tonight.
The communique continues: "Particularly successful bombing and lowflying attacks were carried out on enemy tanks, armoured fighting trucks, and motor transport moving along the El Adem-Acroma road. Over 100 lorries and a number of petrol tankers were destroyed, and the accumulated wreckage of vehicles blocked the road at many points. Effective raids were made by our bombers on road communications in the Derna and Gazala areas, as well as on concentrations of motor transport at BirHacheim.
"In the Gambut zone one Cr42 and one Heinkel 126 were destroyed on the ground, and two Junkers 88's were shot down by our fighters. In further aerial combat, a number of Messerschmitt 109's were damaged."—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1941, Page 7
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