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strength yesterday. 2200 sorties were
made but no enemy planes were seen
over the battlefield. A heavy force of heavy
bombers attacked the Daimler Puch
ball bearing works at Steyr. Rly targets in
Yugoslavia were also attacked. Lighter
planes attacked a number of targets in the
battle area more than 100 enemy planes
were destroyed and we lost 33 planes.
Yesterday night Leghorn and San Stefano
were also bombed. An attack against the
left flank of our beachhead was repelled.
The position was quiet on other fronts.
Light forces of the French navy destroyed
an entire convoy and its escort in the
Adriatic. The Air Ministry gave details
about last month's work. Over 8000 aircraft
took part in the operations and 28000 tons
of bombs were dropped which mean 1000
tons nearly every night. Last month's record
was thousand heavy bombers and
3000 tons of bombs. In 28 nights out of 31
Mosquitoes were out. On 21 nights targets
in occupied territory were bombed. It was
also the most active month of sea mining.
The weather was described as good on only
9 nights and on 6 nights bases in this
country were fogbound. On 29 days fighter
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