JEAN BART'S FIGHT
FRENCH COURAGE PRAISED
LONDON, November 16.
"The French battleship • Jean Bart, stricken by American naval might, lies at a pier at Casablanca like a discarded tomato-tin, blown open at both ends," says the Associated Press correspondent at Allied headquarters. Great steel deck-plates are buckled like cardboard, severed communication cables trail in the water, and there is a hole in.the side 75ft long." Sixteen-inch naval shells and aerial torpedoes 10 times struck the Jean Bart. Twenty sailors were killed at the anti-aircraft guns when 24 United States naval planes made a continuous attack.
Rear-Admiral Hewitt, commander of the amphibious i forces of the Atlantic Fleet, has praised the courage of the French. He said that the. Jean Bart several times opened fire after he thought she had been silenced. "We were forced to zig-zag :f or safety. A shell from the Jean Bart'just missed my ship, the splash reached me on the bridge," he said. Three unharmed merchant ships only 75 yards from the Jean Bart* testified to the accuracy of the American gunfire.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1942, Page 5
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