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(303 tons) and WILHEISHAVEN 
      (105 tons). Operations were cancelled on two nights. Extensive 
      photographic reconnaissances were flown and the warships at BREST 
      were kept under constant observation. It is estimated that our 
      aircraft sank or seriously damaged 8,000 tons of enemy shipping. 
      A German single engine fighter on photographic reconnaissance 
         crashed in DEVONSHIRE, the pilot being captured.   
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
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                           LIBYA.                           
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> Bad weather persisted in the forward 
      area and somewhat restricted work by our fighters and bombers. 
      In the frontier area, HALFAYA was continuously bombed by day 
      and also at night. Enemy dive-bombers, escorted by fighters, 
         made several attacks on our troops near AGHEILA.   
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                           MALTA.                           
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> Enemy attacks continued frequent 
   although on a somewhat lighter scale than the previous we
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
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MAYALA. Dutch and British 
      aircraft co-operated in protecting our convoys. Our light bombers 
      assisted by a few Catalinas bombed enemy aerodromes and communications. 
      The scale of Japanese attacks upon SINAPORE increased and fighters 
      escorted their day bombers, in countering these attacks, our 
      Buffalo fighters were often confronted with odds of two and three 
      to one and sustained fairly heavy losses in aircraft although 
                  most of the pilots were saved.            
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                          RUSSIA.                           
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> On the MOSCOW Front, the German 
      air force does not appear to have been able to interfere seriously 
      with the Russian supply system or to protect effectively their 
      own retre %ating columns. There are indications that the German 
      airforce has been obliged to send reinforcements of long-range 
                  bombers to the Southern Front.