ENEMY AT SALERNO

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1943, Page 6

ENEMY AT SALERNO

ALLIED WARSHIPS' FIRE

(By Telegraph—Pre&s Association—Copyright;) ' Kec. 2 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 15. A "Daily Express" correspondent aboard a cruiser off Salerno says: "For six days the Navy alone had been bombarding the shore, but yesterday came a new roar over the shell- ' splashed bay from waves of Fortresses, Mitchells, and Bostons. The surrender of the Italian fleet had released more of our ships, so yesterday ' we doubled the number of bigger ships in the bay and they fired as never be- ' fore, putting about 40,0001b of shells into the area. The lest ■ 200 rounds were most spectacular. Every man- : jack was called out. Bare-chested stokers joined the- marines in • man- ■ handling 1001b shells in a temperature ' around 110 degrees: With the shells lined up, we were able to fire 25 broadsides from eight guns in six minutes, at the exact moment they were asked for by the army. In that time 20,0001b of shells screamed over the 6000 ft hills of the Amalfi posi-

tions, which lie nearest the Isle of Capri." A military spokesman at Algiers described the Allied bombing of the

Axis forces at Salerno as equalling the concentrated pounding of Pantelleria.