FEINT ATTACK
MADE AGAINST NORWAY AT TIME OF LANDING ‘ IN SICILY. NAVAL FORCE AND DUMMY CONVOY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, December 14. It can now be disclosed that a diversionary feint attack was made against Norway at the time of the Allied landing in Sicily, says Reuter’s correspondent with the Home Fleet, writing from a British northern naval base. Allied ships, including a dummy convoy, participated. The. enemy did not accept the challenge, but our time presumably was not wasted. Maybe the operation caused the Germans to move large forces and bombers from an area nearer Sicily, and maybe it increased the “anxiety complex” known to exist among the German forces occupying Norway. It is more than likely that -after we had left the area, German sea and air forces came out looking for a non existent Norway-bound landing force.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1943, Page 4
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