The Archive · 1941

Levee Raid Admitted Rome

British planes Friday morning attacked the airport of Lecce, on the heel of Italy, the Mahan High Command, admitted yesterday.

Some airport personnel were wounded, the communique said, The communique also claimed that Italian warplanes inthe Aegean tacked a British naval formation at Janchor and torpedoed one aircraft jearrier and two cruisers. One of the feruisers was considered to have sunk, the communique said, Some merchantmen of small ton= nage also were damaged and one ship

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