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...Bristol, Liverpool, Southampton, and Cardiff have been bombed especially hard because they...
...clash between plane and fighting ship, the ship has come out well. Only one armored ship at sea, the cruiser Southampton, has been sunk through bombing alone; only one aircraft carrier, the Illustrious, has been badly hurt by the machine it nests. Both these encounters took place in the Sicilian channel last month (TIME, Jan. 27), and by last week attenuating circumstances had been discovered for both cases. A lucky hit on the Southampton started a fire inboard, which necessitated scuttling; and according to a statement last week by U. S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, it appeared that...
Meanwhile more Stukas and Italian picchiatelli dive bombers had attacked the rest of the convoy. The destroyer Gallant was crippled by an Italian torpedo, but limped into port (the Italians said she foundered). The cruiser Southampton was so badly fired by Nazi bombs that the British were finally forced to sink her. Said Military Expert Hanson Baldwin: "The Southampton's sinking marks a red-letter day in the history of warfare. Some day, when sufficient forces have been concentrated against it and sufficient hits are made, a battleship, too, will be sunk from...
Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton, Ports mouth, Plymouth, London...
...view of the heaviness of the raids. But people who saw Bristol after its third major dose said that, while ships were still loading and unloading there, wide sections of the town (pop. 415,000) looked worse than the shattered heart of Coventry. It was reliably reported that big Southampton was again out of action as a port of ingress...