translate English to French: USS Marsh spent the morning preventing the enemy repair crews from working on the cut but came under fire several times from nearby shore batteries; in the afternoon Iroquois was sent to help her.
Cependant, le 2 octobre, la force opérationnelle 77 dut se ravitailler et ne put envoyer d’avions, ce qui laissa aux destroyers l’entière responsabilité d’empêcher la reprise du service ferroviaire.