AIR ACTIVITY
ENEMY LANDING GROUNDS RAIDED MORE ALLIED STRENGTH IN DESERT WARFARE (By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright) (Recd. 8.45 p.m.) London, Oct. 12. After a week of much reduced activity, in which inclement weather interfered with operations, the air arm went into action strongly on Friday, when two of the biggest raids in the Western Desert were carried out by surprise, the Western Desert correspondent of The Times. The objectives were enemy landing grounds in the low-lying coastal plain and also aircraft and anti-aircraft batteries and transport and administration buildings. Pilots after the raids talked of members of enemy gun crews “standing open mouthed watching our aircraft sweep in from the sea,” and being shot down before they fully realised what was happening’ Reports- from Cairo state that in the next desert battle the Axis will have more American weapons and the increased manpower of the United Nations against them than at any time in desert warfare before.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 5
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