NAZI PLANES CHECKED
NINETY DESTROYED DEFENCES OF MALTA ATTACK DRIVEN OFF (British Oflicifil Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 10. “I dare say you will have noticed the very significant air action fought over Malta a xortnight ago,", said the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, during his broadcast address last evening. “The Germans sent an entire geschwadcr of dive-bombers to Sicily. They seriously injured our new aircraft carrier Illustrious and then, as this wounded ship was sheltering in Malta harbour, they concentrated upon her all their force so as to beat her to pieces. “But they were met by the batteries of Malta, which is one of the strongestdefertded fortresses in the world against air attack. They were met by the Fleet Air Arm and by the Royal Air Force and in two or three days they had lost, out of 150 divebombers, upwards of 90, 50 of which were destroyed in the air and 40 on the ground.
"Although the Illustrious in her damaged condition was one of the t n-'zes of the air apd naval war, the German gesch wader accepted >i . .u. They would not come any more. All the necessary repairs were made to the Illustrious in Malta harbour and she steamed safely ofT to Alexandria under her own power at 23 knots.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20477, 11 February 1941, Page 5
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