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Re: Aerial Torpedo Attack on Ajaccio Harbour.
In "Kampfflieger Volume Four" (Classic Publications, 2005) I wrote:
"On 30 September, French Spitfires intercepted ten of KG 100’s Do 217s, 12 miles off Ajaccio, shooting down three. The survivors attacked the harbour from about 3,000 m and set on fire an LST (Landing Ship, Tank) which was a total loss as well as scoring a near miss on a French destroyer. The one relative success amongst these setbacks was the employment of 'a weapon whose novelty came as a surprise to the Allies', Fritz-X , whose successes against Allied warships are described in Kampfflieger Vol. 3. These attacks had all but ceased by the end of the month, however."
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