AIR RAIDS IN WESTERN DESERT
(Rec. 1.7 p.m.) Rugby, Sept. 27. No planes were lost despite intense anti-aircraft fire when Allied Air Forces on Saturday night again attacked enemy landing grounds in the Western Desert and shipping inside and outside Tobruk. Columns of black smoke were seen to rise after the attack on shipping outside the harbour, while one violent explosion and many fires resulted in attacks on an aerodrome in the Sidi Hameish area. An enemy camp ten miles west of Tobruk was also raided.— 8.0. W
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 28 September 1942, Page 2
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