HEAVILY BOMBED
NAPLES AND PALERMO
WARSHIP MAY HAVE BEEN HIT
WIDE TARGET AREA
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received January 11, 12.50 p.m.)
RUGBY, January 10.
Battleships, merchant shipping, docks,' and the railway station at Naples were the objectives of a particularly heavy raid carried out on the night of January 8-9. Bombs fell either on or Very near the stern of a battleship of the Littorio class, causing a dull red glow. Oth&r bombs caused an outbreak of fire among large motor-vessels. Fires were also started along the waterfront from the north end of the dry dock to the jetty. Several bombs hit buildings on the quay and the railway line, while the railway station also suffered direct hits. A gasometer was set on fire and a series of explosions was caused in the dry dock area and among shipping. One particularly violent explosion occurred north of the railway line.
Other aircraft attacked Palermo, where explosions were caused on or near shipping moored at the jetty. Bombs straddled the northern mole and the wharf between the middle and the southern jetties.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 10
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180HEAVILY BOMBED Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 10
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