200 TRUCKS DESTROYED
DAWN ATTACK BY SPITFIRES
(Received Sept. 22, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 21
The Germans, whose rail escape routes from the Balkans have already been severed in several places, suffered the loss of a whole parked convoy of 200 vehicles of all kinds, including cars, trucks, petrol tankers and some tanks in a dawn attack by Spitfires at Pedinon, in Greece, near the Serbian border, says Reuter’s correspondent at the Allied Headquarters in Italy. The attack as led by Pilot Officer Tom Harrison, of Hastings, New Zealand. Reconnaissance planes later reported that all the vehicles had either been destroyed or damaged.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22460, 22 September 1944, Page 3
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