SHOTS AT BERGEN
EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN SHIPS. GERMAN BATTERY BLAMED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 3. In addition to the Flying Fish, the freighter Charles R. McCormick was similarly machine-gunned at Bergen. Her rigging was cut, but there were no casualties on pither ship. The master of the Flying Fish, Captain W. E. Wollaston, disagreed with the crew and declared that the firing came from a German-operated Norwegian battery attacking British planes,-which sank a supply ship and a cruiser.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 6
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85SHOTS AT BERGEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 6
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