NON-STOP ATTACKS
AXIS DESERT BASES TOBBTJK AGAIN" YISITED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (11.30 a.m.) BUGBY, Sept. 27. A Cairo communique records that our bombers on Friday night attacked targets at Tobruk, Solium, and Maaten Bagush, and our long-range fighters successfully attacked transport between Bardia and Tobruk.
During rn offensive patrol over Sicily we shot down an Me. A Ju. was shot down in the vicinity of Suez yesterday. From these and other operations two of our machines failed to return.
There has been further land patrol activity and artillery exchanges in tho northern sector. On Fridiiy two enemy bombers were destroyed over the oasis of Kufra and on the same day our fighters operating from Malta shot down an Italian plane near Kuriat Island.—Official Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 256, 28 September 1942, Page 5
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