NORTH AFRICAN COAST
DETAILS OF NAVAL BOMBARDMENT.
B.O.W.
RUGBY, Oct. 24.
Further details of Friday night's bombardment of enemy objectives along the North African coast by British coastal forces are given in, an agency message. The correspondent says the action was carried out by
high-speed American-built motor-torpedo-boats. The naval force was ordered to attack the coast at two points, with the object of causing all possible darnage to the shore. The tiny craft were spotted by enemy planes as they sped along the coast in moonlight, and a running fight which lasted two hours developed. Time after time the planes roared down on the ships, blazing away with cannon and dropping bombs, but fire from the boats disconcerted the attackers and the only hit scored was a cannon shell below the water-line of one boat. The crew succeeded in patching the hole and returning to port. The force suffered no other darnage. They met no opposition from the shore, though they poured in heavy fire from close range at the two points selected.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 252, 26 October 1942, Page 5
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173NORTH AFRICAN COAST Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 252, 26 October 1942, Page 5
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