SICILIAN DROMES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 9, 10 July 1943, Page 5

SICILIAN DROMES

RELENTLESS POUNDING

DAY AND NIGHT RAIDS

LONDON, July 9. Allied aircraft are keeping up their relentless attacks by day and night on airfields in Sicily.

Gerbini, which has been bombed day and night since Monday, was hammered again yesterday. Two other targets were also attacked, and heavy bombers of the strategic and tactical air forces combined in a raid on Catania and another objective. In one attack our bombers and fighters shot up a railway convoy and trains full of troops. Catania was attacked in daylight yesterday by Liberators, which bombed the city's telephone and telegraph systems, plastered the railway marshalling yards, and set the central railway station ablaze.

, A correspondent says that enemy opposition was again on a reduced scale. A force of enemy fighters came out to smash up the Liberators, but lost eight of their number before calling off the challenge. Two Liberators were lost. The crew of one were machine-gunned by enemy fighters while they were in parachutes. Spitfires from Malta shot down three enemy fighters which were about to land on Comiso airfield, and destroyed another machine on the ground.