SCHARNHORST HIT
GERMAN BATTLESHIP ATTACKED FROM AIR (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, June 14. An Admiralty communique states that aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm carried out an attack on German naval units in Tronheim Fiord early yesterday morning. information has now been received that one hit abaft the funnel was obtained with a heavy bomb on the battleship Scharnhorst. It is also reported that a possible second hit was registered on the same ship.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24326, 17 June 1940, Page 7
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74SCHARNHORST HIT Otago Daily Times, Issue 24326, 17 June 1940, Page 7
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