Stormoviks Swoop On Fleet Massing At Lake Ladoga
Rec. 9.30 p.m. London, Aug. 29. The Iszvestia reveals that Russian marines and airmen dealt a severe blow to a large expeditionary force which the Germans in the last two months had been massing at Lake Ladoga for a new attempt to break Leningrad's defences. Stormoviks caught the expeditionary fleet at its base with vessels filled with troops, tanks and munitions, sinking five troopships and six warships. An S.S. division had crept up across boggy ground to launch a simultaneous land thrust but the Russian marines fiercely attacked and wiped out much of the division. A Stockholm message states that a large number of German barges are concentrated in the Gulf of Finland for an assault on Leningrad. It is officially announced at Helsinki that 60 planes last night bombed the city, causing fires and bomb damage.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1942, Page 3
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