Details of British bombing open tions in the Middle and Near East yesterday are given in an RAF, communique published in Cairo today.
The communique states: "Syria: Barracks and store buildings at Palmyra were heavily raided by R.A.F. bombers yesterday, At Aleppo airfield bombs were dropped on runways and among dispersed aircraft, "Pilots of an: R-A.F. squadron, flying American fighters, destroyed.four Vichy aircraft on the aerodrome at Queseir and damaged one other large unidentified aircraft, Later they encountered another aircraft in the air off Beirut and shot it down into the sea.
"Our aircraft machine-gunned and damaged five Potez planes on the aerodrome at Deir Ez Zor, "Cyrenaica: Raids were made on several objectives during the night of June 28/29, A number of fires were started in the harbour area of Benghazi and on landing grounds at Gazala, The port of Demo was also bombed, "From all the above operations one of our aircraft is missing."
Reuter,
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