Italians Help Finns Bomb Kronstadt
(■Received 11.30 a.m.) HELSINGFORS, January 25
No fewer than 20 Italian volunteer airmen participated in the bombing raid ’ on Kronstadt, and two Soviet bases in Estonia, early this week. The Italians, who were highly trained pilots, flew newly-arrived modem machines. Finland’s small air force is increasingly active. The most outstanding recent feat was performed liy a pilot named Jorma, who tackled seven enemy machines and shot down six.
The Finns declare that, of 24 Soviet planes which left Estonian bases on bombing expeditions during the last three days, only three returned. Twenty-one were shot down. A Finnish surgeon from the front states that he operated on two Russian girls wearing lieutenants’ uniform.
They were wounded by rifle bullets while working with an ambulance corps.
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Northern Advocate, 26 January 1940, Page 5
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