The extract describes the 1941 Lofoten raid as a more successful raiding operation using converted landing ships and embarked assault craft. Its target was a fish-oil factory whose destruction carried strategic value. One operational detail is wrong: destroyers supported the action, whereas the account names corvettes that were not yet in service. The correction shows why a useful specialist study still has to be checked against ship service dates and the wider operational record.
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Checking a landing-craft history against the record
A useful landing-craft study wrongly claims that corvettes supported the Lofoten raid.