RAID BY ALLIED TROOPS
CASUALTIES VERY LIGHT (Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F.) Western Desert, Aug. 29. British troops raiding struck at the enemy last night. In a lightning attack the raiding party invaded the enemy’s lines with powerful artillery support and inflicted casualties. Our casualties were very light. Last night’s attack took place in the short time between the fall of darkness and the rising of the moon. The artillery’s barrage made an amazing spectacle. The sky behind our forward positions was lighted to an incredible brilliance by flash upon flash of gunfire, while opposite where shells were falling it was like a violently erupting volcano. The enemy was quick to retaliate and blazed away without pause for a full hour, i Flares shot up from the enemy's lines and the vicious chatter of automatic weapons broke out from all directions. Our troops met with stubborn resistance from the Germans in weapon pits, but before the withdrawal had silenced a number of these and demolished machine-gun posts. Artillery during this time shelled the enemy’s positions at a greater depth. The whole opera tion was carried out in quick time with every phase exact to the minute.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 31 August 1942, Page 5
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