RAID ON MALTA
ENEMY PLANES SUFFER
(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 26,
Enemy aircraft raided Malta on -Saturday night and again on Sunday. A number of attacking bombers and fighters were damaged by our aircraft, which intercepted. Enemy formations of Jußß's, which were seen taking off from the Sicilian aerodrome of Comiso on Saturday night, were attacked and destroyed. It is now learned that on Saturday our fighters operating ■ over the eastern Mediterranean shot down two Jußß's and damaged a number of others.
From these and other operations six of our aircraft are missing, but four pilots are known to be safe. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 5
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104RAID ON MALTA Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 5
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