FIVE NAZI SHIPS
POUNDED OFF NORWAY
Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON Dec. 6. Flying through some of the heaviest flak yet encountered, on the afternoon of December 5 squadrons of the R.A.F. Coastal Command Mosquitoes and Beaufighters attacked at mast-height five enemy merchantmen sheltering in two fiords on the a Norwegian coast They hit all five ships and left them burning furiously, says the Air Ministry.
They also hit and set on fire a tug and auxiliary vessel. Two aircraft are missing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 137, 7 December 1944, Page 7
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