RAIDS ON BENGHAZI
DEVASTATION WROUGHT Rugby, Sept. 25. Graphic details of the recent raid on Benghazi are given in the R.A.F. news service. “As well as direct hits on two ships, one of which blew up, there was little in the harbour that did not receive damage of some sort,” reported one Allied navigator. “I was watching the sunset behind | Benghazi on the way home,” said an American rear gunner, “when I saw an explosion that .threw smoke, flame and pieces of ship thousands of feet into the air. It was a big merchantman we had bombed about 15 minutes before.” The crews of aircraft attacking in the moonlight nearly six hours after the first raid could see the glow from blazing ships 80 miles away as they approached the target. They used the burning hull of a big merchantman as an aiming point when they dropped their bombs on the already depleted concentration of Axis shipping and started a number of other fires in the harbour area.—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 228, 28 September 1942, Page 5
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