Greatest Sweeping Feat
LONDON, December 1
The mine-sweeping of the Scheldt Estuary to open the port of Antwerp was the greatest single operation of its kind ever attempted, says Reuter’s Supreme Headquarters correspondent. The Germans had laid hundreds of mines in the channel and more than 100 minesweepers under the general co-ordination of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief for the invasion of Europe, slaved heroically clearing a stretch of water 70 miles wide, which is undoubtedly a mine-sweeping record. The sweepers, in a single day’s operations, exploded 80 mines.
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Northern Advocate, 2 December 1944, Page 5
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