-2- During cross Channel operations our fighters set fire to a small ship and an escort vessel and destroyed a float plane. 14th/15th. SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> 95 aircraft sent: Nurnberg 80, leaflets (Paris Orleans area) 12, mining 3. 3 missing. Libya. 12th. SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> 9 Marylands bombed Berna landing ground destroying a large aircraft and damaging others. 12th/13th 6 Blenheims attacked 2 landing grounds where ammunition dumps were exploded and fires started and four others bombed Bardia harbor. Mediterranean. SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> 13th/14th. Naval aircraft set fire to a 6,000 ton merchant ship in convoy south of Lampe 12th/13th. SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> 5 Wellingtons attacked oil cisterns at Piraeus starting small fire. German Air Force. SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> 14th/15th. 30 enemy aircraft were operating of which about 20 are suspected of sea mining in the Thames Estuary. Malta. SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> 13th/14th. 9 fighters machine-gunned Luqa aerodrome slightly damaging one Wellington. Our fighters destroyed 1 and anti-aircraft fire probably destroyed 1 and damaged 4. |