bad. At dusk a Beaufort dropped a land mine near the Port 
      Militaire at Brest.
 
      
 
 
NIGHT OF JANUARY 27th/28th. 
 
      All operations cancelled.
 
      
 
 
LIBYA.
 
      On Jarnary 26th Blenheims again bombed Italian landing grounds. 
      Our fighters shot down 3 C.R. 42 (Fiat biplane) fighters near 
      Mechili and 2 G. 50 (Fiat monoplane) fighters near Derna. One 
      Hurricane lost, pilot safe, one Gladiator missing and 2 damaged.
 
      
 
 
ERYTHREA
 
      Same day our aircraft bombed communications and machine gunned 
      a motor transport in the Agordat area.
 
      
 
 
GERMAN AIR FORCE
 
      January 27th. Enemy activity slight. A few coastal and inland 
      reconnaissances by single aircraft. One JU 80 bomber shot down 
      by anti-aircraft in Lincolnshire.
 
      
 
 
NIGHT OF JANUARY 27th/28. 
No enemy operations.
 
      
AIRCRAFT CASUALTIES IN OPERATIONS OVER AND FROM THE BRITISH 
      ISLES.
 
      ENEMY
 
DESTROYED
 
 
      By A.A. 1 Bomber 
 
      British Nil
 
      
 
 
SPAIN
 
      No new military evidence of preparations for German move into 
      Spain.
 
      
 
 
ITALY
 
      Reports of German troops in Italy are