NAVY IN ACTION
ATTACK ON SARDINIA HARBOUR BY BRITISH DESTROYERS &.AIRCRAFT. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE. LONDON, August 5. The Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Navy co-operated in an attack on the Italian Mediterranean island of Sardinia on Friday night, when Swordfish bombers from the aircraft-carrier Ark Royal attacked an Italian seaplane base on the island. Ey the light of flares and the reflection of fires caused earlier by a bombardment by British destroyers, the bombs found their mark on aeroplane hangars and a petrol dump. A huge fire broke out. All the British aircraft returned safely. The earlier attack by destroyers prepared the way for the aircraft. The warships entered the roadstead and a neighbouring harbour and bombarded hangars and air installations at both places. A seaplane slipway was damaged by the naval gunfire.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410806.2.32
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1941, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
134NAVY IN ACTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1941, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in