MERSA MATRUH
WELL BLASTED BY SHELLS .. & BOMBS. (Received This Day, 1.0 p:m.) LONDON, July 13. In their attack on Mersa Matruh, British light naval forces, from close inshore, raked the harbour with salvo after salvo of shells, also shelling anti-aircraft gun positions. There was no opposition from the shore defences after the first few rounds. One nava! airman said: “Hell was knocked out cf Mbrsa Matruh.” Naval aircraft swooped on the harbour, plastering it with bombs, while shellbursts from the British fleet ringed the harbour. Several enemy ships were damaged in the harbour. The British units were undamaged and all the naval aircraft returned to their base.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420714.2.44
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1942, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
107MERSA MATRUH Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1942, Page 4
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