Battle of the Sharnhorst (Part 2 of 3)
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Battle of the Sharnhorst (Part 2 of 3)
And meantime, we were coming up to intercept her between where
this was going on and the coast of Norway, and that's what
happened. The, the Belfast came across, came across them again
and they had a, I guess a few fires. We, we were coming up as
fast as we could, had been for a day or so, and so we knew what
was going on. And then about, shortly before 5:00, the Duke of
York ahead of us and we were astern, and we had, I guess we must
have left the destroyers astern by that time, the, came up and
started firing at the, at the Sharnhorst, the distance, she had
14- inch guns, Sharnhorst has 11 so that she probably had a
little bit more distance on them. Anyway they're firing and, and
closing a bit, but Sharnhorst was fast. But the Norfolk, I
think, had done some damage, or somebody had put a, slowed down
the Sharnhorst at one point because we thought that she was
gonna get away. We were too far away, we didn't, we had 6-inch
guns and couldn't reach her, of course. But, and I was in the
aircraft plot, we, it was... it was rough enough that it
was pretty difficult to stand, you know, it was, and of course
it was dark and there was no aircraft activity, in fact the
Germans had nothing of it that's, so we had nothing to do.
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