DEFEATED AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1942, Page 5

DEFEATED AGAIN

AXIS SUPPLY EFFORT

LONDON, November 2.

Skilful flying by our torpedo bombers has defeated another enemy attempt to supply their forces from Tobruk. Around midnight on Saturday, two supply ships, heavily escorted, tried to evade our torpedo planes under a dense smoke screen. An American pilot oil a Canadian squadron found a gap in the smoke clouds and made a breath-taking spiral dive to launch his torpedo. A supply ship went up in a huge burst of flame and debris. At dawn, another force of torpedo bombers found the convoy still bound for Tobruk, and a second merchantship was blown up by. an English pilot in the same way. Malemi aerodrome in Crete, enemy forward landing grounds, and targets over the battle area have all taken a hammering in the instalment in the Middle East air offensive mentioned in today's Cairo communique.

An R.A.F. fighter squadron has just completed two very successful days. It has destroyed 11 stukas and two Messerschmitt 109's, as well as damaging many other enemy planes. Two of the squadron's pilots were wounded, but no planes were lost. At first light on Saturday the squadron opened its score with two stukas destroyed and several fighters badly damaged. ■■ Later they bombed enemy vehicles and troops and then got involved in a big dogfight with 24 stukas and their escort, After a few &«?£iQ