MANY PLANES CAPTURED
ABANDONED BY ENEMY (Received Sept. 28, noon) LONDON, Sept. 27 There was little air activity yesterday, as the bulk of the Northwest African Air Forces was grounded by bad weather. Mitchells found some gaps in the clouds, however, and bombed enemy troop concentrations in the Carno area. Fighter bombers located 40 trucks and destroyed four of them. The landing ground at Pomilianarco, near Naples, was attacked by fighter bombers, two direct hits being scored on the runway and another on parked aircraft. No Allied aircraft were lost.
The number of planes captured slightly damaged or intact on the airfields in Italy amounts to a considerable figure. Six bases have already yielded 244 planes. Of these 77 were at Monte Corvino and Ravello and 69 at Taranto.
In Sicily 1200 planes were found abandoned in July and August.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22154, 28 September 1943, Page 3
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