Commandos Stage Another Raid On France
0G MADE ON COAST AT BOULONGE
man Forces Driven Back And Defences Penetrated
NATIONS ENTIRELY SUCCESSFUL; CASUALTIES VERY LIGHT
London, April 22. •l has been made on the French coast by British °P era - aue i SS ued this afternoon by Combined Operations I '""""""'fites that early this morning a raid was made on i at Boulogne. J ' ! n forces defending the coast were driven back by ' ; '- penetrated the coastal defences. Kinrt was entirely successful and our men withdrew :: 'tr were light' ' rht naval forces protecting the operations left one Ger«wseriously damaged and another on fire. a l casualties were extremely light and no British ships Sl!v damage whatever. •• the third raid on the French coast which has been cari:if, 1S eom bined operations. The first was made on a wireless ' ! Primeval near Abbeville, on February 27 and the second "Jjbe naval base at St. Nazaire on March 28.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13624, 23 April 1942, Page 5
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