PERSISTENT RAIDS
ROYAL AIR FORCE TOLL OF AXIS PLANES MIDDLE EAST ZONE (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 3 p.m. RUGBY, June 1. A Royal Air Force Middle East communique states that Royal Air Force fighters maintained defensive patrols over His Majesty’s ships in the Mediterranean throughout Saturday. “In the course of these patrols they destroyed five Junker 88 bombers, one S 79 and one Cant 107 bomber and damaged other Junker 88’s so severely that a number of them are unlikely to have regained their bases,” adds the communique.
“At Tunisia, an Italian ship attacked on Friday was again bombed and machine-gunned. Three direct hits on the vessel were followed by clouds of black smoke. “In Crete the aerodromes at Malemi and Heraklion were again heavily bombed during the night of 31. Three enemy aircraft were set on fire at Malemi, and at Heraklion a number of fires, accompanied by heavy explosions, were started near the runways and among aerodrome buildings. Six grounded Junkers 88’s were machine-gunned and damaged.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20571, 3 June 1941, Page 9
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