STORY OF CAPUZZO.
“NEVER SEEN SUCH SHOOTING”
CAIRO, Aug. 27. Sergeant John Hale of Dandenong, one of several Australians serving in the Middle East with the British Army, who has just returned from the Libyan frontier, witnessed from the British lines the recent naval bombardment of Fort Capuzzo. . “I have never seen such shooting, he said, “and I have seen plenty that was good. Every shell found its target, and in a few seconds a huge area of the fort was obliterated in explosions and dust. We got our stuff in along the back road as they cleared out. “It was murder while it lasted, but I’ve certainly got to hand’it to those naval gunners. Life out on the frontier will do me. We’re on top, and do what we like. AVo put a couple of hundred rounds a day into their convoys, and they have yet to find our guns, let alone hit them. They haven’t got one artillery observation post, and don’t look like getting one the way things are.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 244, 12 September 1940, Page 7
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