INSHORE RAID
MADE ON NORWEGIAN COAST BRITISH AIR AND NAVAL FORCES. SUPPLY SHIP SUNK & FACTORY DESTROYED. LONDON, January 7. It is announced in London that another raid was made on the Norwegian coast last night by the Royal Navy in a. combined, operation with the Royal Air Force. A joint communique issued by the Admiralty and the Air AEinistry states that the object was to intercept enemy ping'Light naval forces entered a fiord between Bergen and Trondheim and spent some hours working close inshore in the inner channels. Only one enemy supply ship of medium size was found and this was immediately sunk, together with two trawlers alongside a canning factory, which was destroyed. Owing to low visibility, due to snow and hail squalls, and the danger of damaging a nearby town, little firing was done at other enemyowned factories. Air forces gave the ships long-range fighter protection and also assisted by attacking an enemy aerodrome near Stavanger. Our ships suffered neither damage nor casualties and all our aircraft returned safely.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1942, Page 3
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