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Ping Panther · 10-07-07, 05:03 PM

Thanks for the pointers. I will be certain to cruise Malta and points further west of there. I just picked up the book, "At All Costs", by Sam Moses. It's all about getting a voyage of a tanker; SS Ohio, through Gibraltar (Aug. '42), known as "Operation Pedestal", to give critical relief to the remaining U.K. forces on Malta after nearly 2 years of intensive German bombing & naval seiges of shipping.

I skimmed ahead in the chapters... and came to a map of the massive escort routing, and it indicated 2 significant lighthouses off the coast of Tunisia. This got me considering the recent posts of wartime coastal lights... to have light/ or no light? (earlier post by She-Wolf) It describes that Cape Bon & Kelibia lighthouses were certainly lit, with patterned flashes, etc., so much so that the merchant gunners passing by had just about wished to shoot them out! They gave too much back-lighting & bearing to expose the merchants and to aid the attack of u-boats in that area. This does seem like a good point to consider in GWX. :hmm: At least have shoot-able coastal lights?

10-07-07, 05:03 PM	#9
Ping Panther Lieutenant Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: the armpit of the Mid-Atlantic / Quadrant CA42 Posts: 262 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the pointers. I will be certain to cruise Malta and points further west of there. I just picked up the book, "At All Costs", by Sam Moses. It's all about getting a voyage of a tanker; SS Ohio, through Gibraltar (Aug. '42), known as "Operation Pedestal", to give critical relief to the remaining U.K. forces on Malta after nearly 2 years of intensive German bombing & naval seiges of shipping. I skimmed ahead in the chapters... and came to a map of the massive escort routing, and it indicated 2 significant lighthouses off the coast of Tunisia. This got me considering the recent posts of wartime coastal lights... to have light/ or no light? (earlier post by She-Wolf) It describes that Cape Bon & Kelibia lighthouses were certainly lit, with patterned flashes, etc., so much so that the merchant gunners passing by had just about wished to shoot them out! They gave too much back-lighting & bearing to expose the merchants and to aid the attack of u-boats in that area. This does seem like a good point to consider in GWX. :hmm: At least have shoot-able coastal lights? Last edited by Ping Panther; 10-07-07 at 05:15 PM.