RESULTS OF NAVAL ACTION
LONDON, October 7. Reuter's correspondent on board a cruiser with the Home Fleet reveals that the naval action against enemy shipping in the Bodo area, which was reported on Tuesday, resulted as follows:’ —-Au 8000-ton tanker was hit and left down by the stern and making for a beach; a 5000-ton freighter was hit three times by bombs and left with smoke pouring out of it; an 8000-ton freighter was left burning after it was hit; a loaded barge was bombed and run on to a beach; and a 500-ton freighter was left listing with the crew abandoning her. Other hits brought the total number of vessels hit to eight.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 12, 9 October 1943, Page 5
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114RESULTS OF NAVAL ACTION Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 12, 9 October 1943, Page 5
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