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Summary of air casualties.
Enemy: Destroyed, Probable, Damaged
By our fighters
Bombers: 2,2,5
Fighters: 6,5,4
By anti-aircraft
Bombers: 2, nil, nil
Totals: 10, 7, 9
British:
9 aircraft (4 pilots safe). One bomber missing.
5. Convoys.
Two convoys of seventy ships have arrived
safely. Cargoes included eight of oil, eighteen of pigiron and
iron ore and ten of pyrites.
6. Middle East
. On the night of October 26th/27th enemy
aircraft dropped bombs in Ismailia district without causing damage
or casualties.
Sudan. On night of October 25th/26th three of our aircraft bombed
enemy troop concentrations in Kassala.Fires broke out followed
by explosions.
Kenya.
On October 25th three enemy aircraft bombed
Garissa without causing damage or casualties. On the same day
two Hurricanes of the South African Air Force intercepted three
Italian bombers near Lake Rudolph and shot down two of them.
The third was severely damaged and is believed to have crashed.