BENGHAZI RAID
REPORTS ON DAMAGE
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(Rec. 1.50 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 25
Graphic details of the recent raid on Benghazi are given in the R.A.F. news service.
"As well as direct hits on two ships, one of which blew up, there was little in the harbour that did not receive damage of some sort," reported one Allied navigator. * "I was watching the sunset behind Benghazi on the way Home," said an American rear-gunner, "when I saw an explosion that threw smoke, flame, and pieces of ship thousands of feet into the air. It was a big merchantman which we had bombed about 15 minutes before." '.',., A The crews of the aircraft which attacked in the moonlight nearly six hours after the first raid could see the glow from the blazing ships 80 miles away -as they approached the target. They used the burning hull of the big merchantman as an aiming point when they dropped their tons of bombs at an already depleted concentration of Axis shipping and started a number of other fires in the harbour area.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 8
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179BENGHAZI RAID Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 8
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