RAID ON NORWAY
BLOW BY NAVAL PLANES
SUPPLY SHIP SUNK
LAND TARGETS HIT
(Rec. 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 14
The British Navy continues tirelessly to harass the Axis efforts at sea. Continued successes by submarines in the Mediterranean have been followed .by air attacks off Norway.
An Admiralty communique says: "Further successful action has been taken by the Royal Navy , against enemy supplies and sea communications with his troops on the north Russian front.
"At dawn on Friday carrier-borne naval aircraft attacked enemy shipping in the Bodo area of the Norwegian coast and against military objectives in the vicinity. One enemy supply ship of about 2000 tons was sunk and other ships damaged.
"An aluminium works was hit and set on fire and an electric power station was also bombed. From these attacks all our aircraft returned safely."—B.O.W. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1941, Page 7
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138RAID ON NORWAY Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1941, Page 7
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