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NORTHERN FRONT.
 All quiet.
 
      
RUSSIA.
 In KHARKOV area Russian attacks have made some 
      progress.
 
      
 
 
3. 
AIR OPERATIONS
 
      WESTERN FRONT.
 22nd/23rd. Three R.C.A.F. and eight R.A.A.F. 
      bombers took part without
 
      casualties.
 
      23rd/24th. Twenty-three aircraft were sent sea mining.
 
      
LIBYA.
 21st/22nd. An Albacore scored direct hit on a 4,000 
      ton tanker East of TRIPOLI.
 
      22nd. Our fighters shot down one JU 88. Twenty dive bombers with 
      fighter escort attacked TOBRUK. No damage, no interception. Four 
      Messerschmidts machine-gunned ACROMA landing ground and damaged 
      six Hurricanes. Aircraft made several attacks on one of our convoys 
      off SIDI BARRANI sinking two ships. Enemy air activity has increased.
 
      22nd/23rd. Wellingtons dropped eighteen tons of bombs on MARTUBA 
      landing ground starting fires 
 
      among aircraft and transport vehicles.
 
      
MALTA.
 A total of fifty-nine aircraft attacked our aerodromes. 
      At LUQA one aircraft was destroyed. Hurricanes destroyed one 
      enemy aircraft probably destroyed a second and damaged others.