Attempt on Kronstadt Foiled
LONDON, Oct. 27. The Russian Baltic fleet has smashed a major German attempt to capture the Kronstadt naval base. The Russians attacked and crippled the German invasion fleet before it could leave its home port .
A Stockholm report sefs that the Germans had assembled barges and landing craft for an attack when Russian cruisers and destroyers, supported by bombers, blasted hundreds of the barges massed in an unidentified Nazi-occupied harbour in the Gulf of Finland. The Daily Telegraph’s Stockholm correspondent says that the German operation was prepared by Admiral Carls, planner of the invasion of Norway and of the attempted Invasion of Britain. The Germans were determined to take Krott stadt because submarines operating from this base had inflicted such heavy losses on German troop transports in the BaltU Sea.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 256, 29 October 1942, Page 5
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