ALLIED AIR RAIDS

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1944, Page 5

ALLIED AIR RAIDS

Rumania and Bulgaria [Aus. & N.Z. Pres.(Rec. 1.0) LONDON, May 19. An Allied communique from Italy says: Strong forces of escorted heavy bombers on Thursday, despite unfavourable 1 weather, bombed oil re-, finery installations at Polesti, and rail yards at Belgrade and Nish. , The German News Agency stated that Rumanian .and German fighters engaged the Allied bombers over Serbia and Rumania, and shot down at least 25. N'Z. PILOT’S FEAT. LONDON, May 13. lamping home on three engines, after a twelve-minutes running fight against a Messerschmitt 110, the crew of a Lancaster saw the lights of an English airf.eld. Then me 'plane ran out of fuel. The skill of the pilot, Flight-Sergeant A., Gibson, of Wellington, was however, equal to the occasion, arid the bomber, with all four engines dead, came m as smoolniy as a glider. The Lancaster was attacked after bombing Mailly. The enemy's f.re damaged the Lancaster’s control services, petrol supply system, starboard main plane, collanl tanks, magneto, and engine structure, and put out of action the mid-upper turret. Gibson put the ’plane into a dive. The Nazi then attacked but the Lancaster’s fire hit him, and he burst into flames, dived, and exploded on the. ground.