Germans Taken Completely by Surprise Although Vessels on "Hitler's Back Doorstep" for Hours By Reuter's Special Correspondent With the Home Fleet Aboard a Warship, Mar. 7.
ERE is the only eye-witness account of the daring and conspicuously successful raid by British naval and military forces on German objectives on the Norwegian coast on Tuesday.
As we steamed away from the scene of operations, great pillars of smoke and flame were rising against the snow-covered mountains which drop sheer into the sea along this part of the fjord leading to Narvik.
Testifying to the destructiveness of the raid, one dense black column reached a height of 6,000 feet while another enveloped the mountains for miles in a thick fog-like pall.
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