AXIS WORSTED IN AIR BATTLE
RUGBY, Oct. 28. A Cairo dispatch describes a big aift battle on Wednesday afternoon when,Australian and. American . pilots en-1. gaged 60 enemy aircraft.: The Ameri-fl cans, who were in wedge formation? coming back from, a raid over El Daba?. were greatly outnumbered, but by the" time they had shot down seven enemy, planes, a fighter squadron of the R.A.F** arrived and joined in the encounter. t Two stukas were shot down and sijS, others were probably destroyed or damaged. Allied pilots also shot down* a Macchi. Our losses were two pilots.? The enemy lost 10 aircraft, while many: more limped home in a crippled con-* dition.—B.O.W. . •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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111AXIS WORSTED IN AIR BATTLE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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