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HALF-FORGOTTEN HEROES.

THE

T

HE

THIRD WEEK

KING OF

LAMPEDUSA

W'ALA

cise a 12. 1983. a

VOUS

Cecil

Bi.11

June

14

Harcourt.

Rear Admand pr The Royal Navy, you were commanditg Force L

and six destroyer

By Dudley Pope

at the

STREETS banky a thunky howlin

from Aeping from ters The bridge of the Newfound 14 ons land

a. they desand broad sides into Mussolini's fur. filled island of Lampedusa

was up tuan di Vascella Bernadini. Military Commander Lampedusa, your head aching from the thunder of shells and the 286 tons buintan

plummeting

from warplanes North

+4

m.

Hormont waited until

3 men fig aefer bombard-

Tu Ba

constal aftes Fri kien in the

typical Mediter toate summer day, fired back Cape Geala until the cruise: 1- yed

12

was stop

down

Luck was

Out

th <sf

Foren. African Air Their explosions webird

thuent

DMIRAL Marcourt, sucing no Breneler, deruled to to start off and see what anothe

wook!

1ft up the island and shakes Bay at Lombardment

it.

And if you were Sydney Cohen, a sergeant-pilot in

the Royal Air Forev,

were taking

Fren

At the Dalians' fetermuratione Po fight on

Do

VIKI Hal

za

1.

Far. Malta. in your Sword- fah P for Peres to search for Luftwaffe pilot ported adrift in his rubber dinghy.

Metostrike Sergeant Uber

Laken off from Walta

Pay at 11 am this Sword- was one of a motley suund aneraft, including Beau

and Wellingtons,

Ar Seu Rescue

Communications.

and

like thick mist Across its pulled fare and more explosions erupts :: every few minites showed The North African Air Force wins

Still a work

C

Cohen, then aged 22 and way than life a Stake Newington (where Luftwaffe her smashed the that he shared W11/

mister). dreaded he would have to kont

Shane

And his Scottish navigato Sergeant Peter Pakt, of Falkirk, and the wireless

"Although I was surprised asked to see the commandant of The island, ond I was taken to a and presented high-ranking naval officer.

"Several other officers Joined bul suddenly everybody dashed in from the

ned

and

Sgt. Sydney Cohon

headed tor Sousso-widto flags were seen on the island.

A landing craft-LC1 181, with # company of the Coldstream Guards aboard-was ordered to etose the island. The Guards- roof

men bad had an uncomfortable we were told that an air raid

time as the LCI sailed up and WHA starling. There was no down all day waiting to land on sound i grunire or bombs and the leland, I thought that their nerves were gelling a bil ragged.

"We followed them down-

to the uperation

stairs

room 75 feet below ground and I tried to explain to there there that I

was not an Allled emissary. They

asked me then

to

Telura

Malla and take with me the offer to surrender,

operatur-air Scrap of paper

Sergeant Wruth Bournemouth. watched with some interest as Cohen vul the Swurdish's nove down

Describing the events followed, Cobon said kater

"1 komehed down out cather

landing Lumpy

feld. There

winch

isere a few burnt-out invaft

it and also a burnt-out hangar

11

to

THE Commandang gave me a scrap of paper with his signature and we decided to take off for Tunisio.

"Before we could leave Allied bombers appeared and gave the island another pasting. Eventu-

the second-in-

boing

As soon ₤13

Bags the white were reported Admiral Harcour! Lookout ordered the destroyer

officer in a boat to to send in present the terms and conditions of surrender. At 7.44 pun. the of Lookout commanding officer reported the surrender had been accepted from command the Governor half-an-hour's walk Inland.

Lookout. remained behind while Admiral Harcourt took Newfoundland and others of his force on to the next objective the Island Linosa, the remaining link in the chain of islands Mussolini was confident would effectively cut the Medi- terranean in halt

I was mit sure that it was Lamally we took off and set out for 1946. pertise, but somehow we thought Tunisia.

must be

then

of

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Note: Sydney Cohen was re- ported missing on August 27, He was flying a tip- transport air- engined RAF.

Marseilles to St "We landed near Sousse and craft from

By "Suddenly we saw two white weat to an American camp. Mawgan Airfield, Cornwall.

10 promoted

Wurrant sheets being waved by figures at where we handed over the sur-

Officer, he was Dying home to the edge of the airteld, and two tender chit."

and a civilian Although Lampedusa hind be demobilised. The haze made viability bad. Italian officers

surrendered to Hal Fur's ancient Has ratne across to the aircraft und Una's luck was ost

The leader

of the deputa- Swordßsh and earned Cohen the Tompkins went wrong and he soot

"The King of Lampe- Band fat his fuel enough for toon was wearing a Tyrolean it tille of

large plume He burst dusn" the official surrender was W.15 Pay at hotara yg was ruming For the great Allied as-

yet to come. One nem- and voluble Italian long, long And he wil al

ber

The crew understood During another bonbardment sault on Hitler's "Fortress

way from Malta,

that be Italian and told me

by Pinciope and Jervis at 8 p.m. Nat far away. however, Europe" hud begun; the

the Samic day after Cohen an island--probably man was trying to surrender the Germu

and Laken off from Army in North read

the island Lampedusa, Bomb smoke spread island to us. Africa had surrendered a month earlier and Operation "llusky." the attack on Sicily.

platized WIN July 10.

for

But first of all the twin islands of Pantelluria and Lampedusa had to be cap- tured. Rocky and volcanic they were Mussolini's own "Maltas." bristling with anti-aircraft

and coastal batteries and well equipped with underground hangars for aircraft. Softening-up

guns

had captured Pantellaria

Lookout and Nubian on to start tho Lampedusa to softening-up process,

اد

the

NEXT SATURDAY

The Gladiators Of Losjaskog.

GENERAL MANNING CLEARS

A

DANCING BEACHHEAD

and the stockholders break into

London. FIVE £1,000 a year blonde dance instruc-

or bared her teeth in

For a minute Dr two we watched the student sweating

By KENNETH ALLSOP

a waltz

fing, we show him how. Maybe 110

wants perfection. For him there's a prize to be aimed at

While I inspected dreamland cover displaying or the Arthur Murray Gold Medal

of bronzed

or the

We cen prove that dancing makes people became neater in dress, more confident, better cble to make friends. It makes them socially capable,"

Tho blonde teacher Cime a smile of rigid sunniness

with the and steered a tense-faced Elsewhere, disposition

pleasure- of 24 Mr Murray put a full-page level again

in a magazine bent stockbroker, His eyes wero City stockbroker into his Arthur Murray Studios in about advertisement

complete-over 360 or them headed "How I Became Popular glazed, but his feet were now Arst shamble through the blanketing the Unite States, Overnight." Immediately 4,000 roughly executing the master THE Royal Navy's Force waltz.

Canada, Mexico Bermuda, unpopular citizens wrote in for plan.

Cuba (and out- mail-order dance lessons,

entered "Everyone is

.for "Every student is analy- Honolulu and

South

individually" rejoiced Mr Man- the day before (June 11)sed. everyone has a tailor- posts in Australia and after a fantastic air bombard-made master plan drawn up a year. And now the invasion basic appeal has

In the following 30 years the ming. "Maybe the student wants Africa) which gross £17 million

aftored little, to take lessons

because he's Maybe ho ment; and that night Rear-for him, everyone taught by of Europe begins. For it is in- caiy adjusting elastically to take introverted.

Just Admiral Harcourt had taken the blueprint," said Mr Earl tended that the London branch in prcdigested modem Pay wants to get by on the floor-

chain that chology,

brochure with the cruisers Newfoundland, Manning happily.

shall be the first of

is luring Mr Manning will inexorably penetrate uil which Aurora, Orion and Penelope,

potential students has a other major cities in Britain, and the destroyers Laforoy, Jervis, Queen Olga, Loyal, though his blueprint.

escorted through rooms with girl in strapless pink gown which I tuoss is equivalent to

walls and walls of melting in the arms, magenta "Our system is based on Fun metal-threaded yellow fabric, man in tuxedo. Within -- an your university degree, and Simplicity," Mr Manning continued. "It is proven by past bowls of red roses and article by Maestro Murray him- Arthur Murrey Silver Standard, Good Dancer Gets which is about the same as your psychology that dancing is the under smart wall lights like Ice, self, "Way

cream Cones (and pursued More Fun Out

Of Life. A pubile, school education." At 10.45 p.m. every

ingreatest social game in the world throughout the tour by piped dinner, he declares, gain new gun

DIFFERENCE. but for developing one's personality; mambos and jump-numbers), health and

happiness. Force L fired ten rounds,

"Grace, Lampedusa did not react. Har-confidence and conversational Mr Manning told me about his poise arxi confldense are yours," There is, however, at least one court ordered Penelope (better power. And it helps the career, faith.

a New York practical difference between the he quotes known as the famous "Pepper Many, many

Bold contanola are

provided by Mr journalist with a novel thought education pot from the splinter holes over the night club table, and

on the subject. "I think dancing Murray's school and, say, Eton nctions dancing-especially gained in her gallant

is the surrent way to put young College. For an Etonian it works arminst the Luftwaffe earlier in customer's wife is there --helps the war) and Newfoundland to to bring off deals. Dancing i

"To mo," he mid simply, "Mr store in tune with the cosmos" out at about 10s, a classroom The staff of the London studio fire another ten rounds each. dennitely good business,

Murray is a genius. His is one

He charges the would-be Again therb was no reply from On the business side of dane of the great American success includes 36 instructors (tial or Mr Murray trebles that, And as the bullt a won- pay of 220 a week for male cab 333, an hour, ing, these are not wild words, stories. He has

18 analysts average, would be hep.cat

the market Lampedusa, reven miles long For this 20-year-old American is derful business and a wonderful and femalo) and

the envoy in Britain of Arthur future for thousands who work ("they try to understand the quires as lessons,

Student as a person"),

price of becoming the life of tho tho mostest-both in studios and who started with him. olmo bhre rock, was having a

dollars.

early days are millionaires. I've sure that American salesman- round method costs the stout

successfully sum of £40. bad time. The Italian commun-

Under Mr Manning's generale boun

big mongy earning

for ship would

reyenne and Me Manning, der was later to report about the

Even ship a beachhead has now been several years now and there is knock the British for a loop. bombing and shalling!

The established

guce, I'm sure," he said, reverently amplifying an earlier in London, Just no limit to one's churning worse was the effect on

regard £70,000 gilitaring emporium of power with Mr Murray."We're getting $100 inquiries, Nonservation. froops of the contact with the civilians, who were for the most-through-hooding in Lalossier de Tale great Ameclown, sonces day from bricklayers to dostock, and or a business formokur,“ se

and children, Square,

story began when as the age of There's a final, hand in Britain, part women.

the Italians.

and two miles wide,

scattered

tho

A GENIUS

with wild olive growing on the Murray, the dancing host with with him Most of the people asked Mr Manning it ho was dangthalj· by the Murray-b-

in

the

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