UNDER GERMAN NOSES
AMPHIBIOUS EXERCISES IN CHANNEL TRANSPRT FLEET STEAMS ALONG ENEMY COAST. NOT A SINGLE WEAPON TURNED AGAINST IT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 10. A correspondent aboard a destroyer off Boulogne yesterday, describing the amphibious exercise in the Channel, said: “Thn war’s most impudent combined exercise reached a climax—right under the nose of the Germans. Our destroyer and three sister destroyers are screening a formidable line of troopships with assault landing craft hanging from the davits, while away to port is a long line of troop-crammed barges. The great armada is heading straight for France, but just as the ship’s clocks click to 9 a.m., both lines of invasion craft and the escorting destroy 61 ’ 3 make a great sweep to starboard round a buoy and return across the Channel.
• “There is a look of dejection and resignation in every seaman’s face. All had hoped this was the real thing, but the Navy achieved its aim. Employing 300 naval craft, it brought the armada faultlessly,swift and on schedule from a multitude of ports and embarcation beaches within 10 miles of the enemy coast, proving that it can be done. That is the great lesson of the exercise.
“For four hours we steamed in daylight along what was once the world’s most treacherous stretch of water in full view of the enemy and not a single enemy weapon was turned against us, nor did we see a single German plane, submarine or even an E-boat.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1943, Page 3
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