Bombarding Cherbourg

10th October 1940: Any invasion of Britain will have to contend with the Royal Navy as well as the RAF

One of the 4.7 inch guns on board HMS JUPITER firing on the night of the 10th - 11th October 1940, when heavy and light forces of the Royal Navy carried out a bombardment of the enemy occupied port of Cherbourg, where a concentration of enemy shipping had been detected