TERRIFIC POUNDING
SHELLING BY NAVY NO AIR OPPOSITION (10 a.m.) LONDON, July 18. “The British Navy has given the east Sicilian coast what is probably the most deadly, concentrated and prolonged bombardment in naval history,” reports Reuter’s correspondent with the Mediterranean fleet. “The warships daily for the past week have sent hundreds of shells screaming into Italian coastal positions. Now Catania is the objective. For the past three days it has undergone an unparallel non-stop pounding from the sea. Great clouds of smoke are billowing from the town as broadside after broadside tears into Catania’s barracks, forts, factories, and gun emplacements. We also pounded the main road north of Catania, which is choked with Axis transport. Not once in three days has a single enemy plane dared to interfere. Spitfires are above us almost continuously.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21150, 19 July 1943, Page 3
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