HEAVY BOMBARDMENT
THE TOE OF ITALY
BRITISH BATTLESHIPS
LONDON, September 1
Two of Britain's biggest battleships, the Rodney and the Nelson, with a screen of cruisers and destroyers, sailed up the Straits of Messina in broad daylight yesterday and shelled enemy batteries in the toe of Italy.
A correspondent at, Allied headquarters says that the battleships swept up the straits and shelled the shore batteries on the Italian mainland in one of the greatest naval bombardments of the war. Their 16-inch guns poured armour-piercing and high-explosive shells into what was once the mainland terminus of the Messina ferry at Reggio. The roar of the bombardment coufd be heard for miles, and clouds of dust could be seen mingling with the smoke from exploding enemy ammunition dumps. The reply from the Italian shore batteries was ineffective, and no enemy aircraft opposed the warships. Other warships, with a cruiser and eight destroyers, engaged enemy batteries in the "Cape Pellaro area, south of Reggio.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1943, Page 5
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