2. 10th main operations Hamburg (100) and small forces against 0stend and Dunkirk 8. Middle East . Night of 7th/8th. Brindisi attacked (30 tons H.E.) hits claimed on aircraft factory, torpedo boat base and railway centres: Naples (20 tons H.E.) fires started railway centers and near torpedo factory: targets in Sicily including Bitumen Factory at Ragusa and gun powder factory near Com 9. On 7th, night of 7th/8th and following day Harbor and Workshops at Derna and Benghazi were attacked. 10. On 7th and 8th: Blenheims attacked two medium merchant ships escorted by one destroyer first 150 miles W.S.W. Cape Matapan, later about 180 miles north of Benghazi. During first attack four 250-lb bombs hit one ship After second attack one merchant ship seen on fire, the other stationary with crew abandoning ship. |