-3- 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. |