Reporting on the ROK, bombing, fof Ballan objectives in Africa Reuters' Special correspondent in the Western Desert. saver "This is typical of the methodical, intensive work being car tied out by the Bomber Command of the Middle East, 1 four nights I have been eamping ina tent half buried in. sand on the edge of a bomber aerodrome the "Western Desert and had opportunities to sce personally the careful planning devoted western raids, "The particular squadron where 1 camped has a squadron-leader only 25 years of axe, and though the squadron has arried out over 100 aids it has hitherto not lost a single machine or airman, Each night, as the moon was rising, T watched, standing outside my tent, bomber engines warming Up. bombers. taking off, switching off their lights as they reached a few hundred fect altitude, and disappear: nye in the starry desert night towards Libya.
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