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ground were destroyed or damaged. The aerodrome at Luqa was rendered unserviceable. Some damage resulted in the dockyard area and to civilian property.
50. Our fighters, which included some F.A.A. Fulmars, and which on no occasion exceeded eight in number, attacked the enemy aircraft with the greatest determination, and succeeded in destroying, or probably destroying, twenty-five of them and damaging nine others. Anti-aircraft gunners were also effective and accounted for a further seventeen. Of this combined total all but three were German aircraft. Our losses in aircraft were one Hurricane and two Fulmars, but one crew was saved. The Dive-Bombing during the third raid was reported to be less determined.
51. On the 21st January, several enemy aircraft made individual raids, but no military targets were damaged.
Greece, Albania and Dodecanese.
52. Bad weather conditions restricted Royal Air Force activity. Blenheims carried out two daylight attacks on Berat, and one each on Valona and Elbasan. Four Wellingtons also attacked Valona by night. During these operations military objectives were hit and many fires started.
53. On the 20th January nine enemy aircraft bombed Piræus; a large cargo vessel was damaged, together with some civilian property. Our Gladiators intercepted the raid and shot down one bomber; one of our fighters crashed in flames on landing. On the same day one Savoia with three C.R. 42's attacked Herakleion Aerodrome, causing some slight damage.
54 On the night of the 16th/17th January one Wellington carried out an attack on the aerodrome at Maritza in the Island of Rhodes, from which it is suspected that German bombers have been operating. This attack was repeated on the night of the 21st/22nd by seven Wellingtons, and fires were started among aerodrome buildings.
Palestine.
55. Single aircraft have been reported over Palestine, and bombs have been dropped at Tel Aviv, Sarafand and Áqir.
Sudan and East Africa.
56. Light bombing attacks were made over a large area. Two attacks were made on searchlight positions and suspected petrol dumps near Massawa, where three searchlights were probably hit. Five Wellesleys bombed dispersed aircraft on the ground at Barentu and the Caproni Works at Mai Adaga were hit. Bombs were dropped on a concentration of M.T. and a gun position at Tessenei.
57. In British Somaliland and Eritrea attacks were made on the fortified posts at Burao, on the supply depot at Assab, on a stores compound at Berbera, and on a number of military targets.
58. Six J.U. 86's of the South African Air Force dive-bombed a concentra- tion of M.T. at Neghelli. A petrol dump was set on fire and the M.T. park was completely gutted. Three Battles attacked Javello aerodrome and one C.A. 133 was hit and another damaged. On the following day, during an attack on an aerodrome south of Addis Ababa by six Battles, four S. 81's were destroyed and another severely damaged.
Air Intelligence.
Italy.
59. There are reports of activity by German Air Force personnel at Pola, and it is rumoured that all aerodrome and seaplane station facilities there are to be handed over to the Germans. Reports have also been received that the Germans are making an aerodrome for their own use at Taranto.
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