THE MEDITERRANEAN
ENEMY CONVOY BOMBED.
RUGBY, May 21
The R.A.F. in a Middle East communique stated: On Tuesday night R.A.F. and naval planes attacked an enemy convoy in the Mediterranean. Hits were scored with bombs and probably with torpedoes, on a medi-um-sided merchant vessel land destroyers. Objectives in Crete and Libya were raided by our bomber aircraft on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, operation in Cyrenaica were on a reduced scale, owing to bad weather. In the early morning of May 14, a JUBB was hit by fire from antiraircraft defences, and crashed into the sea north of Alexandria harbour. From all operations, one of our aircraft is missing.
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Grey River Argus, 23 May 1942, Page 3
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