Brooklyn (CL 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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- 'Q V . I I Q N I I 1 I I I . IAII,Kssllr'i:lIr':lI'i'r'-slvrlusi lhis is how the silenced batteries of Fort lvl Hunk on I guns ot the U. S. fleet. Building Ill center foreground has been leveled and bomb V ' the coast of French Morocco ztpnezired to the crew of I and shell' hits can be seen near the batteries at the right. This, and the other S. Navy recomiaisszaiice'plain- after lhztt fortress was batlerecl into submission by l l'Qli1Zll'k2lbl6 fotos on these pztges, were niaclev by U. S. Navy aerial fotographers. You're looking down on the har- ' bor of Casablanca after it was hammered by American guns. The French battleship Jean Bart, 21 huge hole in herstern, stands at her ,berth Cleft, centerl. Smoke still pours from bombed warehouses. Arrow points to outline of sunken drydock and circled is a sunken French destroyer on her side in the channel. U. S. Write rs, E ewitnesses Tell tories of rench Landing By The Associated Pri-ss The French Fleet at Casablanca came out fighting and almost succeeded in blasting a way through the American blockade, and French Marines put up a terrific battle at Fedhala when American forces made their surprise landing on the Atlantic Coast of Moroc- co early last Sunday, it is disclosed today in the first eyewitness accounts received here. ' The Americans succeeded in completely sur- if 1 prising the French defenders, arriving off the shores wl1ile they still were lighted, it was dis- QVV, closed. ' '.,' 5 QQ. Many stirring. fast-moving incidents were re- lated by Associated Press war correspondents QEi, g5A y f'f '5, Hamid v cl-1.115 Boyle and John A. tSkippe1-J Moroso, Ill, in their first eyewitness accounts of the landings. These graphic accou11ts. written before the surrender of Lhe'Frc.-ncn colony, show that the fighting there was fierce: but that the French did not 'cally want to fight and often apologized ' ' r I ' for fighting after they were captured. JOHN MORQ59 Boyle, received the rifles of two surrendering Scnegalcse who got ashore in the third assault. wave at Fedhala, 12 miles northeast of Casablanca, after a ducking in the Mediter- ranean. Moroso was in the thick of ine naval :u-tion, seeing itlthrough straw, ..,. ,,... . .. ,, from a light cruiser wnich blazed the way into Fedhala with guns roaring. U '52iff2:.5?t-,:gi1?': Moroso, 32-year-old native of Charleston, S. C., was aboard one of the first troop convoys to carry the second AEF io northern Ireland and has covered other operations of the Atlantic Fleet. ' Uvlorcso is well known in Norfolk. He visited the offices, as he frequently does, of the Virgin- ian-Pilot only a day or two before he left to goin the American convoy sailing for Africaj. Boyle, 751-vear-old Kansan, is on his first F ,Q .2-QQ.'.l,'.-j,ZQi'gij assignment as a war correspqiident. A mem- ber of the AP staff in New York for five years be- H fore goinv abroad. He is a Graduate of the Uni- AROLD BONE versity of' Missouri School on Journalism. Stories on Pages 2 and 3 xiii? :if Q I2 E. I 41.. xiao - -4

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