KRONSTADT BASE DEFENDED
Invasion Fleet’s Fate LONDON, October 27. The Russian Baltic Fleet has smashed a major German attempt to capture the Kronstadt naval base, which lies 20 miles west of Leningrad in the Gulf of Finland. The Russians attacked and crippled a German invasion fleet before it could leave its home port. A Stockholm report says that the Germans had assembled barges and landing craft for the attack. Russian cruisers and destroyers, supported by bombers, blasted hundreds of barges massed in an unidentified Nazi-occu-pied harbour in the Gulf of Finland. The "Daily Telegraph’s” Stockholm correspondent says the German operation. was prepared by Admiral Carls, planner of the invasion of Norway, and of the invasion of Britain. The Germans were determined to take Kronstadt because submarines operating from this base had inflicted such heavy losses on German troop transports in tlie Baltic Sea.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 29, 29 October 1942, Page 5
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143KRONSTADT BASE DEFENDED Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 29, 29 October 1942, Page 5
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