WEARY BUT HAPPY
BRITISH BATTLESHIP CREWS AFTER SALERNO BOMBARDMENT TWO DAYS OF TREMENDOUS SHELLING. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 19. The battleships Warspite and Valiant, which bombarded Salerno, are now back in port. For two days they lay only a mile off the beach while they carried out the bombardment. They were repeatedly attacked by German bombers and torpedo bombers, but kept on with their shelling. The captain of the Warspite said that his officers and men had no rest for six days on end, and he was afraid to ask them to sit down in case they fell asleep. A captain of the Royal Marines who was ashore observing described how 'he 15in. shells wrecked buildings, and blew ammunition dumps sky-high with tremendous explosions.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1943, Page 3
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