SUPPLY SHIP SUNK.'
CANADIAN SERGEANT’S SUCCESS. HARBOUR AND AERODROME BOMBED. (Rec. 1.0. p.m.) LONDON, March 7. A Canadian Sergeant, one of the first batch to arrive in Britain under the Empire Air -(Training Scheme, today sank a German supply ship of about 2500 tons with a direct bomb hit on the stern. An. Air Ministry communique recording the action states that aircraft of the Coastal jCommand this afternoon sank an enemy supply ship off the Dutch coast. They also bombed the naval harbour at Den Hekler and the enemy occupied aerodrome at Ockenburg. None of our aircraft are missing from the operation.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 125, 8 March 1941, Page 5
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