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LONDON--American-built Ventura bombers of the RAF, escorted by a strong cover of British Spitfires, attacked the enemy airfield a St. Brieuc, on the Brittany coast of France, last yesterday, an Air Ministry communique said today...
Although disappointed in finding that all the air ambulances which he had planned to observe had been shot down by the Nazis, McFarlane reports that he was particularly impressed with the effectiveness of the RAF medical work in the western desert...
...RAF Bombers from Malta had eased the way for the Allies with a crushing raid on the airport near Tunis which wrecked or crippled 38 planes, and the Rome radio reported a tangle between Italian and Allied fighter planes over Cape Bon, 145 miles, inside Tunisia from Algeria. This indicated Allied fighters were operating from new forward bases in Algeria or that long-range fighters from Malta had joined the fray...
...names on the plaque are in gold: Correspondent Mel Jacoby, killed in a plane crash at MacArthur's headquarters in Australia, and the MARCH OF TIME's Harry Garvin, killed in action with the RAF in the Middle East. Across the top of the plaque are the words: "For the Freedom of all People...
...CAIRO--RAF fighter planes shot down or damaged 30 Axis raiders over Malta Sunday and American heavy bombers blasted an enemy convey south of Crete as the Germans, stalled in Russia, showed signs of shifting their weight across the Mediterranean for a possible winter campaign in Africa...