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IWM caption : A 20 mm Oerlikon gunner on board HMS DIDO getting a light from a pal between bombing attacks in the eastern Mediterranean. FURTHER INFORMATION: The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon depicted here is on a Mark IIA Mounting. Original caption notes: Four cruisers and several destroyers left Alexandria to escort four merchantmen laden with troops, tanks, etc, to Malta. The weather was extremely bad at the beginning of the journey, and one destroyer, GHURKA, was torpedoed and sunk, and one merchantman was bombed and set on fire and had to be abandoned after the troops had been rescued from her. The rest of the convoy reached Malta safely.

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IWM caption : A 20 mm Oerlikon gunner on board HMS DIDO getting a light from a pal between bombing attacks in the eastern Mediterranean. FURTHER INFORMATION: The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon depicted here is on a Mark IIA Mounting. Original caption notes: Four cruisers and several destroyers left Alexandria to escort four merchantmen laden with troops, tanks, etc, to Malta. The weather was extremely bad at the beginning of the journey, and one destroyer, GHURKA, was torpedoed and sunk, and one merchantman was bombed and set on fire and had to be abandoned after the troops had been rescued from her. The rest of the convoy reached Malta safely.

Date

17 - 19 January 1942

Source

This photograph A 9575 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01)

Author

Zimmerman, E A (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer

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current	12:14, 7 January 2012		800 × 596 (58 KB)	Rcbutcher	replaced with new higher-resolution version from IWM
	18:00, 14 October 2007		350 × 240 (41 KB)	Benea~commonswiki	{{Information \|Description=A 20 mm Oerlikon gunner on board HMS DIDO getting a light from a pal between bombing attacks in the eastern Mediterranean. \|Source=[http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/ IWMCollections] IWM Photo No.: A 9575 \|Date=17 - 19 January 19

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- HMS Exeter (68)
- Blocus de l'Allemagne (1939-1945)
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- HMS Dido (37)
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- ダイドー (軽巡洋艦)
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