LAST WEEK’S GALE
Serious Dangers Averted ~ LONDON, June 26. The violent gale in the Channel created a perilous situation for tho Allied armies in Normandy last week, says a “Daily Mail” correspondent. A north-easter o” such ferocity for this time of the year blowing in gusts of 70 miles an hour—eannot be recalled by Channel pilots, .it blew into the Bay of the Seine and piled up such a sea that all calculations of tides were confounded. Onlv superb seamanship by hundreds of sailors handling cumbersome invasion craft in the teeth of the shrieking wind and tumbling sea saved the Allied armies from a serious situation. For two nights, as the vessels dragged their anchors and plunged into one another with a sickening grinding sound, it was touch and go. , The work of keeping the army supplied was.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 232, 28 June 1944, Page 5
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138LAST WEEK’S GALE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 232, 28 June 1944, Page 5
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