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ATTACHED TO BRITISH HOME FLEET FORMIDABLE BATTLESHIPS VISITED BY FIRST LORD & OTHERS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, December 13. After the return of the British and American naval force from their cruise to within 200 miles of the coast of Norway reported in an earlier message, Admiral Stark, accompanied by the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr A. V. Alexander) and other distinguished personalities, paid a four days’ visit to the American ships, says Reuter’s correspondent with the Home Fleet. “We carried out for their benefit a vast battle practice, with an air attack. We put up a show that would have intimated any Germans had they seen it,” the correspondent adds. A British United. Press correspondent says the most formidable battleships so far seen in the European waters formed part of the United States task force recently attached to the British Home Fleet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1943, Page 4
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