Where had the Scharnhorst _gone? Air patrols were flung out across the western approaches and the Bay of Biscay. Every yard of the Breton Successt ame promptly Successful results came promptl
graft signalled back to the base and Coastal Command headquarters that the Scharnhorst now lay inside the pierhead of the outer jetty at La Pollice-240 miles south of Brest. onslatight was be-4 "Thursday on the Scharnhorst and other enemy warships at Brest, bombers and lorpedo-Bombers—Hudsons" and " Beauforts—opened up an offensive. They showered their heaviest bombs on the Scharnhorst in her new harbourege, from which she was apparently to make sortie Into the Atlantic.
The attack was so persistent and effective that the cruiser did not move. She hed to stay in the.same position until the British Somber Command, using its biggest aircraft, had assembled. the most powerful striking force ever directed against
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