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Credit: http://www.internet-esq.com/ussaugusta/photos/bart.htm
Photo of French battleship Jean Bart at Casablanca pier following Allied aerial and naval bombardment during North African Invasion ("Operation Torch") .
During the opening bombardment of Casablanca on 8 November, 1942 the battleship USS Massachusetts scored 5 hits on Jean Bart with her 16" shells. One penetrated an empty magazine. A second penetrated below the after control station, completely wrecking it, and the nose made a large hole below the waterline. The third and fourth did not meet sufficient resistance to detonate an armor-piercing shell. The fifth, about 0720, hit the forward turret (then firing at Massachusetts), ricocheted against the top of the barbette, and then into the city, where it was recovered and set up as a trophy at the French Admiralty building. The impact of this shell on the barbette jammed the turret in train, silencing Jean Bart's entire main battery for about eight hours.
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Credit: http://www.internet-esq.com/ussaugusta/photos/bart.htm
Photo of French battleship Jean Bart at Casablanca pier following Allied aerial and naval bombardment during North African Invasion ("Operation Torch") .
During the opening bombardment of Casablanca on 8 November, 1942 the battleship USS Massachusetts scored 5 hits on Jean Bart with her 16" shells. One penetrated an empty magazine. A second penetrated below the after control station, completely wrecking it, and the nose made a large hole below the waterline. The third and fourth did not meet sufficient resistance to detonate an armor-piercing shell. The fifth, about 0720, hit the forward turret (then firing at Massachusetts), ricocheted against the top of the barbette, and then into the city, where it was recovered and set up as a trophy at the French Admiralty building. The impact of this shell on the barbette jammed the turret in train, silencing Jean Bart's entire main battery for about eight hours.
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